Literary Texts from the Sippar Library II: The Epic of Creation
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Anmar Abdulillah Fadhil
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Enrique Jiménez
Abstract
This article presents first editions of three large manuscripts of the Epic of Creation from the “Sippar Library,” and eight smaller fragments from the British Museum’s “Babylon” and “Sippar” collections. In addition to restoring several lines of various episodes of the text, they provide an almost complete restoration of the two closing verses of the Babylonian version of the poem.
Article note
The tablets in the Iraq Museum are published with the kind permission of the College of Arts (University of Baghdad) and the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. The fragments in the British Museum are published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. The article has been written under the auspices of a Gerda Henkel “Patrimonies” Stipend that enabled Fadhil’s stay at LMU Munich in the summer 2019, as well as by a Sofja Kovalevskaja Prize (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) that enabled Carmen Gütschow’s work in the Iraq Museum.
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- Nachrufe
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- Wilfred Hugo van Soldt
- Abhandlungen
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- A New Interpretation of the Opening Lines of the Assur Letters
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