ahencyclopedia:THE NEWLY DISCOVERED TABLET V OF THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH: THE new T.1447 tablet, accord
ahencyclopedia:THE NEWLY DISCOVERED TABLET V OF THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH: THE new T.1447 tablet, according to the article Back to the Cedar Forest: The beginning and end of Tablet V of the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgameš published in June, 2014 is:The revised reconstruction of Tablet V yields text that is nearly twenty lines longer than previously known.The obverse (columns i-ii) duplicates the Neo-Assyrian fragments which means the Epic tablet can be placed in order and used to fill in the gaps between them. It also shows the recension on Tablet V was in Babylonia, as well as Assyria and that “izzizūma inappatū qišta” is the same phrase that other tablets being with.The reverse (columns v-vi) duplicates parts of the reverse (columns iv-vi) of the late Babylonian tablet excavated at Uruk that begins with the inscription “Humbāba pâšu īpušma iqabbi izakkara ana Gilgāmeš”.The most interesting piece of information provided by this new source is the continuation of the description of the Cedar Forest:The aftermath of Gilgamesh and Enkidu’s slaying of Humbaba is now better preserved.The passages are consistent with other versions and confirm what was already known. For example, Enkidu had spent some time with Humbaba in his youth.Gilgamesh and Enkidu saw ‘monkeys’ as part of the exotic and noisy fauna of the Cedar Forest; this was not mentioned in other versions of the Epic.Humbaba emerges, not as a barbarian ogre, and but as a foreign ruler entertained with exotic music at court in the manner of Babylonian kings. The chatter of monkeys, chorus of cicada, and squawking of many kinds of birds formed a symphony (or cacophony) that daily entertained the forest’s guardian, Humbaba.Read MoreInfo and photos by Osama S.M. Amin on Ancient History Encyclopedia -- source link
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