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Plates I-III ROBABLY the most significant piece of creative writing in the ancient Near East is the long known Semitic epic poem commonly called "The Epic of Gilgamesh." Divided over twelve tablets, its text originally consisted of more than three thousand lines written in the cuneiform script and in the Semitic language now usually designated as Accadian. It is particularly remarkable for its plot-structure; a number of episodes in the restless, adventurous life of the hero Gilgamesh are integrated with no little skill into a relatively long and intricate epic tale, probably the first of such size apd complexity in the history of epic literature. Moreover, this Babylonian product was current all over the ancient Near East; fragments of the epic written in the Accadian, Hittite, and Hurrian languages have been excavated in Boghaz Keui, in central Anatolia. In modern days, quite a number of cuneiformists have devoted much of their time and effort to the copying, translating, and interpreting of the poem; among the better known of these are George Smith and Paul Haupt, Peter Jensen and Campbell Thompson. Now while on the whole the Epic of Gilgamesh may be accurately described as a Se

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Author

Samuel Noah Kramer; Thorkild Jacobsen

Published

1949

Language

CEB

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)