Wiki › #1700

EA-CORPORA-22 — The Twenty-Second Seating: The Corpus Hermeticum, Gilgamesh and the Enuma Elish, the Avesta and the Rig Veda, Each in Its Original Language

Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-23 · deposit #1700
AXN:070B.DATASET.🌱👆🐝🔄📏🔴

Article

EA-CORPORA-22 seats four collections on the archive's originals shelf, each in the language of its witness and public domain in the United States: 12 works. The Corpus Hermeticum is seated in Greek in Gustav Parthey's Poemander (1854), the first critical edition of the treatises I to XIV, and in Richard Reitzenstein's Poimandres (1904), with the Latin Asclepius in Paul Thomas's Apuleius (1908). The Epic of Gilgamesh is seated in Paul Haupt's cuneiform autographs of the Nineveh tablets, Das babylonische Nimrodepos (1884; 1891), with the eleventh tablet, the flood, and in Peter Jensen's transliteration with German translation (1900); the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, in L. W. King's Seven Tablets of Creation (1902), transliteration and cuneiform copies. The Avesta is seated in Karl F. Geldner's critical edition (Stuttgart, 1896), the issue holding his Prolegomena and the third volume, the Vendidad. The Rig Veda is seated whole, all ten maṇḍalas, in Theodor Aufrecht's transliteration (second edition, Bonn, 1877). The seats hold the neighbours of what the shelf already has: the Hermetica beside the Chaldaean Oracles, the Greek Magical Papyri and Nag Hammadi; the Babylonian epics beside the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint; the Avesta beside the Second Temple apocalypses; the Rig Veda beside the Upanishads. Geldner's second volume, Max Müller's Devanāgarī Rig Veda and the Stobaean Hermetic fragments are queued. It is the third of three seatings from one request, after EA-CORPORA-20 and 21.