قراءة كتاب The Epic of Gilgamish A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform
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The Epic of Gilgamish A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform
class="linenum">2Gilgamish ...................
3in the plain ..................
4his hair growing thickly like the corn.
5He came forth ...
6into his presence.
7They met in the wide park of the land.
8Enkidu held fast the door
9with his foot,
10and permitted not Gilgamish to enter.
11They grappled with each other
12goring like an ox.
13The threshold they destroyed.
14The wall they demolished.
15Gilgamish and Enkidu
16grappled with each other,
17goring like an ox.
18The threshold they destroyed.
19The wall they demolished.
20Gilgamish bowed
21to the ground at his feet
22and his javelin reposed.
23He turned back his breast.
24After he had turned back his breast,
25Enkidu unto that one
26spoke, even unto Gilgamish.
27“Even as one6 did thy mother
28bear thee,
29she the wild cow of the cattle stalls,
30Ninsunna,
31whose head she exalted more than a husband.
32Royal power over the people
33Enlil has decreed for thee.”
Second tablet.
Written upon ...
240 (lines).
1 Literally “he attained my front.”
2 IV¹ of walādu.
3 I.e., in the suburb of Erech.
4 patāḳu has apparently the same sense originally as batāḳu, although the one forms its preterite iptiḳ, and the other ibtuḳ. Cf. also maḫāṣu break, hammer and construct.
5 The passage is obscure. Here šuḫuru is taken as a loan-word from suģur = ḳimmatu, hair of the head. The infinitive II¹ of saḫāru is philologically possible.
6 I.e., an ordinary man.