![]() ![]() (were) lapis lazuli, according to the technique of Ninagal ( Ninagal is Ea’s smith). 790-2.ĭuring the reign of Ameluana, the king, Enmeduga was sage.ĭuring the reign of Amegalana, the king, Enmegalama was sage.ĭuring the reign of Enmeušumgalana, the king, Enmebuluga was sage.ĭuring the reign of Dumuzi, the shepherd, the king, Anenlilda was sage.ĭuring the reign of Enmeduranki, the king, Utuabzu was sage.Īfter the flood,(?) during the reign of Enmerkar, the king, Nungalpirigal was sage, whom Ištar brought down from heaven to Eana. Selz, “ Of Heroes and Sages–Considerations of the Early Mesopotamian Background of Some Enochic Traditions,” in Armin Lange, et al, The Dead Sea Scrolls in Context, v. The name does occur, however, in the form of At(a)nabīš ( ‘tnbyš) in fragments of the Book of Giants found at Turfan.” The name of the Babylonian flood hero Utnapishtim / Ziusudra is, so far, not attested in the extant manuscripts from Qumran. ![]() The alleged Elamite origin of the monster’s name would nicely fit the observation that, from a Mesopotamian view, the localization of the cedar forest in historical times moved from the Eastern Zagros to the Western Lebanon. Whiting Melammu Symposia 2: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2001), pp. Grotanelli, “ The Story of Kombabos and the Gilgamesh Tradition,” in Mythology and Mythologies: Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences: Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project Held in Paris, France, October 4-7, 1999 (ed. In this depiction, all four sides of the Sumerian King List prism are portrayed. tenth century C.E.) who “passed on a list of twelve postdiluvian kings that were held to have reigned in the era between Peleg, a descendant of Noah’s son Shem, and the patriarch Abraham.Īmong all the extant exemplars of the Sumerian King List, the Weld-Blundell prism in the Ashmolean Museum cuneiform collection represents the most extensive version as well as the most complete copy of the King List. George also mentions a certain Theodor bar Konai ( ca. al-Suyūtī collected conjurations against evil demons mentioning amongst them a certain Jiljamiš (see George, Gilgamesh, pp. In the Book of Giants, Gilgamesh is the name of one of the giants-offspring of the fallen heavenly watchers and human women.Īnother giant mentioned besides Gilgamesh is Hobabis, who may well be a distortion of the name of Gilgamesh’s adversary, Hu(m)baba (Assyrian) / Huwawa (Babylonian), the famous monster guarding the cedar forest, who was finally killed by Gilgamesh and his comrade Enkidu. ![]() The name is mentioned in the Book of Giants, which was later adopted by the followers of Mani. Thus the attestation of Gilgamesh’s name in the Dead Sea Scrolls does not come as a surprise. It is, however, well-known that Gilgamesh’s fame, how much mixed and distorted the various Babylonian traditions may have become, exerted influence on many stories of ancient authors all over the Near East. ![]() (Festschrift Von Soden) (Kevelaer : Neukirchen-Vluyn : Butzon & Bercker 1969) Plate III.įrom the present state of research this seems, at first sight, not even worth mentioning. Grayson, ‘Assyrian and Babylonian King Lists,’ in: Lišan mithurti. Grayson, from the Reallexikon der Assyriologie, s.v. The cuneiform tablet (IM 65066) is in the Bagdad Museum.Ī.K. ![]()
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