Gadotti Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-61451-545-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 10, 446 Seiten

Reihe: Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie

Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, last published by Aaron Shaffer in his 1963 doctoral dissertation. Since then, several new manuscripts have come to light, prompting not only a new edition of the text, but also a re-examination of the composition. In this book, Gadotti argues that Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld was the first, not the last of the Sumerian stories about Gilgamesh. She also suggests that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle, currently only attested in old Babylonian manuscripts (ca. 18th century BCE), was in fact developed during the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BCE). Providing a new way to look at the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book is relevant not only to scholars of the ancient Near East, but also to anyone interested in epic and epic cycle.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Ancient Near Eastern literature, as well as ancient epic and epic cycle in general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gadotti, Alhena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literaturen des Alten Orients

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of Contents;9
2;Acknowledgements;7
3;Abbreviations;13
4;On Transliteration and Conventions;15
5;CHAPTER I. “Gilgameš, Enkidu and the Netherworld”: An Overview;17
5.1;1. Status Quaestionis;19
5.2;2. Summary of the Composition;20
6;CHAPTER II. The Prologue of “Gilgameš, Enkidu and the Netherworld”;23
6.1;1. Status Quaestionis;23
6.2;2. The Cosmology of the Prologue: GEN 1-13;26
6.3;3. The Journey of Enki to the kur: GEN 14-26;30
6.3.1;3.1 The Destination of Enki’s Journey;31
6.3.2;3.2 The Outcome of Enki’s Journey;33
6.3.3;3.3 The Reasons for Enki’s Journey;33
6.3.4;3.4 The Waters to the Netherworld;34
6.3.5;3.5 The Attack against Enki;35
6.3.6;3.6 The Function of the Story;37
6.4;4. The Function of the Prologue I: GEN;37
6.5;5. The Function of the Prologue II: The Sumerian Gilgameš Cycle;39
6.6;6. Conclusions;41
7;CHAPTER III. The .alub-Tree;43
7.1;1. Introduction;43
7.2;2. The .alub-Tree in Lexical Lists;44
7.3;3. The .alub-Tree in the Third Millennium BCE Royal Inscriptions;45
7.4;4. The mes-.alub-Tree in the Administrative Texts from Early Dynastic IIIb Girsu;47
7.5;5. The .alub-Tree in the Administrative texts from Ur III Period;48
7.6;6. The .alub-Tree in Ur III Incantations;51
7.7;7. The .alub-Tree in Sumerian Literary Compositions;52
7.8;8. The .a-lu-úb .ar-ra-an;58
7.9;9. The .uluppu-Tree in Akkadian Sources;60
7.10;10. Conclusions: The Epigraphic Evidence;62
7.11;11. .alub = Mahlab Cherry;63
7.12;12. Conclusions;64
8;CHAPTER IV. Narrative and Poetic Structure;67
8.1;1. Status Quaestionis;67
8.2;2. Poetic Structure;69
8.3;3. Narrative Structure;75
8.4;4. Analysis of the Narrative Units;78
8.4.1;4.1 Prologue;78
8.4.2;4.2 The ?alub-tree episode;80
8.4.3;4.3 The Ballgame;84
8.4.4;4.4 The Descent to the Netherworld;86
8.4.5;4.5 The Description of the Netherworld;91
8.4.6;4.6 The Return of Gilgameš and Enkidu to Uruk (Ur tradition);95
8.5;5. Conclusions;96
9;CHAPTER V. Enkidu Redivivus;99
9.1;1. Introduction;99
9.2;2. Bringing Enkidu Back from the Dead;99
9.3;3. The Meturan Catch-Line;104
9.4;4. Conclusions;106
10;CHAPTER VI. The Sumerian Gilgameš Cycle;109
10.1;1. Introduction;109
10.2;2. Status Quaestionis;112
10.3;3. The Internal Evidence;115
10.3.1;3.1 The Prologue;115
10.3.2;3.2 Doxologies and Colophons;115
10.3.3;3.3 The End of GEN According to the Ur Tradition;118
10.3.4;3.4 The Meturan Catch-line;120
10.3.5;3.5 Gilgameš’s Deeds According to the “Death of Gilgameš”;120
10.4;4. External Evidence: Archaeological Evidence;122
10.5;5. Evidence Against a Cycle?;122
10.6;6. Conclusions;124
11;CHAPTER VII. Enkidu’s Return and The Catalogue of Ghosts: GEN ll. 255-end;125
11.1;1. Introduction;125
11.2;2. Mesopotamian Ghosts and How to Deal with Them;127
11.3;3. If One has Heirs …: GEN 255-268;129
11.4;4. If One has No Heir: GEN 269-278;130
11.5;5. If One Dies … not Whole? GEN 279-286a and 305-306;131
11.6;6. The Man whose Corpse Lies in the Steppe: GEN 289-289a;133
11.7;7. The Disrespectful Ghosts: GEN 295-300;134
11.8;8. The Respectful Ghost: GEN 301-302;135
11.9;9. The Still-Born: GEN 303-304;136
11.10;10. The Pedagogical Purposes of GEN 255-end;136
11.11;11. The Underlying Message of GEN 255-end: Nippur, Ur and Meturan;137
11.11.1;11.1 Nippur Tradition;137
11.11.2;11.2 Ur Tradition;138
11.11.3;11.3 Meturan Tradition;142
11.12;12. Conclusions;143
12;CHAPTER VIII. The Manuscripts;145
12.1;1. Introduction;145
12.2;2. Provenience, Archaeological Context and Date of the Manuscripts;145
12.2.1;2.1 Nippur;145
12.2.2;2.2 Ur;146
12.2.3;2.3 Meturan;147
12.2.4;2.4 Sippar;147
12.2.5;2.5 Isin;147
12.2.6;2.6 Uruk;147
12.2.7;2.7 Unknown Provenience;148
12.2.8;2.8 Dating of GEN Manuscripts;148
12.3;3. Tablet Types;148
12.3.1;3.1 Excerpt Tablets (Type S);148
12.3.2;3.2 Multicolumn Tablets (Type M2/3);148
12.3.3;3.3 Prism (Type P);149
12.4;4. The List of the Sources;149
12.5;5. Manuscripts and Textual Variants: Introduction;157
12.5.1;5.1 Nippur Features;159
12.5.2;5.2 Ur Features;159
12.5.3;5.3 Meturan Features;159
12.5.4;5.4 Sippar (Si1);160
12.5.5;5.5 Isin (Is1);160
12.5.6;5.6 Uruk (Uk1);161
12.5.7;5.7 Unknown Provenience: X1;161
12.6;6. Variations in GEN: An Overview;162
12.6.1;6.1 Omission of Signs;162
12.6.2;6.2 Omission of Words;162
12.6.3;6.3 Omission of Lines;163
12.6.4;6.4 Addition of Morphemes;164
12.6.5;6.5 Addition of Lexemes;165
12.6.6;6.6 Addition of Lines;165
12.6.7;6.6.1 Line Sequence’s Variation;165
12.6.8;6.7 Substitution of Morphemes;166
12.6.9;6.8 Substitution of Lexeme;167
12.6.10;6.9 Substitution of Lines;167
13;The Edition;169
14;Translation;170
14.1;Gilgameš Enkidu and the Netherworld;170
14.2;Ur4 (UET 6/1 58, rev 6´–16´);177
14.3;Ur6 (UET 6/1 60, rev 1´–18´);177
14.4;Me2 (Mt2 27–29);177
15;Eclectic Text;178
15.1;Ur4 (UET 6/1 58, rev 6´–16´);184
15.2;Ur6 (UET 6/1 60, rev 1´–18´);184
15.3;Me2 (Mt2 rev 27–29);185
16;Textual Matrix;187
16.1;Ur4 (follows GEN l. 306) rev. 6´–16´;258
16.2;Ur6 1´–18´;258
16.3;Me2 rev. 27–29;258
17;Commentary;259
17.1;Ur4 = UET 6/1 58 rev. 6´–16´;318
17.2;Ur6 = UET 6/1 60 rev. 1´–18´;321
17.3;H 157 = Me2 rev. 27–29;324
17.4;Colophons and Doxologies;324
18;Appendix;325
18.1;Reconstruction of Problematic Manuscripts;325
18.2;1. N44;325
18.3;2. Ur5;326
18.4;3. Ur6;327
18.5;4. X1;328
19;Bibliography;331
20;Indexes;345
21;Plates;373

Über Autor(innen)

Alhena Gadotti, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA.