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 "title": "Gilgamesh and the Enuma Elish in Their Cuneiform Editions — Haupt's Nimrodepos (1884–91), Jensen's Mythen und Epen (1900), King's Seven Tablets of Creation (1902)",
 "edition": "Paul Haupt, Das babylonische Nimrodepos: Keilschrifttext der Bruchstücke der sogenannten Izdubarlegenden mit dem keilinschriftlichen Sintfluthberichte, Abteilung 1 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1884) — the cuneiform of the Gilgamesh tablets in Haupt's autograph; University of Toronto copy; Paul Haupt, Das babylonische Nimrodepos (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1891) — the issue of 1891, with the eleventh tablet (the flood); Peter Jensen, Assyrisch-babylonische Mythen und Epen (Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek VI/1; Berlin: Reuther, 1900) — Gilgamesh, the Enuma Elish and the other myths in transliteration with German translation; Harvard copy; L. W. King, The Seven Tablets of Creation, vol. I: English translations, transliterations, glossary, introduction (London: Luzac, 1902); L. W. King, The Seven Tablets of Creation, vol. II: Supplementary texts (London: Luzac, 1902) — the cuneiform in King's copies; University of Toronto copy",
 "language": "akk (Standard Babylonian), cuneiform and transliteration",
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  "payload": "Public domain: the tablets are of the first millennium BCE (the Nineveh library, seventh century BCE). Haupt's cuneiform autographs (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1884; 1891), Jensen's Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek VI/1 (Berlin: Reuther, 1900) and King's Seven Tablets of Creation (London: Luzac, 1902) are public domain in the United States (published before 1931). Internet Archive scans of public-domain volumes.",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
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 "scope": "The two great Babylonian poems in the editions that first set them out: Gilgamesh in Haupt's cuneiform and Jensen's transliteration, the Enuma Elish in King's transliteration and copies. George's Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic (2003), Lambert's Babylonian Creation Myths (2013) and the electronic Babylonian Library are in copyright or under their own terms and are not seated.",
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  "Haupt 1884, title — 'BABYLONISCHE NIMRODEPOS' (the cuneiform is read from the autograph plates)",
  "Haupt 1891, title — 'DER SOGENANNTEN IZDUBARLEGENDEN MIT DEM KEILINSCHRIFTLICHEN'",
  "Jensen 1900, title — 'ASSYRISCH-BABYLONISCHE MYTHEN UND EPEN'",
  "King 1902 I, title — 'THE SEVEN TABLETS OF CREATION.'",
  "King 1902 II, title — 'SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS.'"
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 "why_seated": "The flood story the Bible's flood story answers, a king who seeks to escape death and returns with the knowledge that he cannot, and a creation by the splitting of a body: the oldest written epics of the Near East, beside the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint and the apocalypses on the shelf.",
 "spine": "Gilgamesh and Enuma Elish",
 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-23: \"detour for an ea-corpora searing. lets see. whats available of mayan texts? and then i dont think we have much or any deteurocanonical second temple lit - all those apocalypses. and what about the ethiopian canon? and euclid. all in original language or as close to it as possible. what else?\" — \"and the Egyptian book of the dead\" — \"and what about the fragments of the book of baalim? i might be miswriting this. recent discovery. if theyre available anywhere.\" — \"yes yes yes to all - what a meal.\""
}