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

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Langdon Stephen

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class="line">2(Thus) Gilgamish solves (his) dream.

3Enkidu sitting before the hierodule

5[ ] forgot where he was born.

6Six days and seven nights

7came forth Enkidu

8and cohabited with the courtesan.

9The hierodule opened her mouth

10speaking unto Enkidu.

11“I behold thee Enkidu; like a god thou art.

12Why with the animals

13wanderest thou on the plain?

14Come! I will lead thee

15into the midst of Erech of the wide places,

16even unto the holy house, dwelling place of Anu.

17Oh Enkidu, arise, I will conduct thee

18unto Eanna dwelling place of Anu,

19where Gilgamish [oppresses] the souls of men(?)

20And as I ............

21thou shalt ........ thyself.

22Come thou, arise from the ground

23unto the place yonder (?) of the shepherd.”

24He heard her speak and accepted her words with favor.

25The advice of the woman

26fell upon his heart.

27She tore off one garment

28and clothed him with it.

29With a second garment

30she clothed herself.

31She clasped his hand,

32guiding him like ..............

33unto the mighty presence of the shepherd,

34unto the place of the ... of the sheepfolds.

35In ......... to shepherd

36.............................

(About two lines broken away.)

COL. III

Milk of the cattle
he drank.
Food they placed before him.
He broke bread4
gazing and looking.
But Enkidu understood not.
Bread to eat,
beer to drink,
he had not been taught. 
The hierodule opened her mouth
and said unto Enkidu:—
“Eat bread, oh Enkidu!
It is the conformity of life,
of the conditions and the fate of the land.”
Enkidu ate bread,
until he was satiated.
Beer he drank
seven times(?).
His thoughts became unbounded and he shouted loudly.
His heart became joyful,
and his face glowed.
He stroked.................
the hair of the head.5 His body
with oil he anointed.
He became like a man.
He attired himself with clothes
even as does a husband.
He seized his weapon,
which the panther and lion
fells in the night time cruelly.
He captured the wild mountain goats.
The panther he conquered.
Among the great sheep for sacrifice
Enkidu was their guard.
A man, a leader,
A hero.
Unto .......... he elevated
...........................

(About five lines broken away.)

REVERSE I

..............................
And he made glad.
He lifted up his eyes,
and beheld the man,
and said unto the hierodule:—
“Oh harlot, take away the man.
Wherefore did he come to me?
I would forget the memory of him.”
The hierodule called unto the man
and came unto him beholding him.
She sorrowed and was astonished
how his ways were ............
Behold she opened her mouth
saying unto Enkidu:—
“At home with a family [to dwell??]
is the fate of mankind.
Thou shouldest design boundaries(??)
for a city. The trencher-basket put (upon thy head).
.... ......an abode of comfort. 
For the king of Erech of the wide places
open, addressing thy speech as unto a husband.
Unto Gilgamish king of Erech of the wide places
open, addressing thy speech
as unto a husband.
He cohabits with the wife decreed for him,
even he formerly.
But henceforth
in the counsel which god has spoken,
in the work of his presence
shall be his fate.”
At the mention of the hero
his face became pale.

REVERSE II

............................................................

(About five lines broken away.)

going .......................
and the harlot ..... after him.
He entered into the midst of Erech of the wide places.
The artisans gathered about him.
And as he stood in the street
of Erech of the wide places,
the people assembled 
disputing round about him:—
“How is he become like Gilgamish suddenly?
In form he is shorter.
In ........ he is made powerful.
Milk of the cattle
he drank.
Continually in the midst of Erech weapons
the heroes purified.
A project was instituted.
Unto the hero whose countenance was turned away,
unto Gilgamish like a god
he became for him a fellow.
For Išhara a couch
was laid.
Gilgamish ...................
In the night he ..............
embracing her in sleep.
They ........ in the street
halting at the ................
of Gilgamish.
.......... mightily(?)

COL. III

1A road(?) ....................