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Ancient Near East
Gilgamesh, Enuma Elish & Babylon
21 entries · 4 sections
General
Myths and Legends of Babylonia and AssyriaDonald A. Mackenzie, 1915 — A massive survey of the religion, culture, and history of the ancient Near East.The Religion Of Babylonia And AssyriaTheophilus G. PinchesLegends of Babylonia and EgyptLeonard W. King, 1916Sumerian MythologySamuel Noah Kramer, 1944, 1961The Philistines, Their History and CivilizationRobert Alexander Stewart Macalister, 1913 — What is known about the ancient and enigmatic Philistine people?
Texts
Records of the PastTranslations of mythological and historical texts from the Ancient Near East.The Seven Tablets of CreationL.W. King, 1902 — The Babylonian creation saga, one of the earliest written myths.The Enuma Elish (The Epic of Creation)L. W. King, 1902 — The Babylonian creation saga.The Seven Evil SpiritsR. C. Thompson, 1903The Code of HammurabiL.W. King, 1915 — The earliest known legal code, considered the basis of many Near Eastern legal systems.The Syrian GoddessHerbert A. Strong, 1913 — Lucian of Samosata's account of Astarte worship in the late classical era, in what is now Turkey.The Babylonian Legends of CreationE. A. Wallis Budge, 1921 — The text of the Babylonian creation myth.
Gilgamesh
The Epic of GilgamishR. Campbell Thompson, 1928 — The first complete academic translation of Gilgamesh.The Chaldean Account of the DelugeGeorge Smith, 1873 — A historic article in which the discovery of the Babylonian Deluge account was announced, an episode from the Gilgamesh myth.The Chaldean Account of GenesisGeorge Smith, 1876 — Early translations of key texts: the Enuma Elish, the Descent of Ishtar, and the Gilgamesh saga, including the Babylonian Flood.Ishtar and Izdubar {Gilgamesh}Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton, 1884 — An early translation of the Gilgamesh myth.Adapa and the food of LifeR. W. Rogers, 1912 — A fragment of the Gilgamesh saga.Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower WorldM. Jastrow, 1915 — A pivotal episode in the Gilgamesh saga involving the Goddess Ishtar.The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish.E. A. Wallis Budge, 1929 — A short pamphlet which contains the 'Deluge' portion of the Gilgamesh epic and a summary of the rest of the text.
Links
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature