Studia Etanaica: new texts and discussions

by Kinnier Wilson, J. V., (James Vincent)

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J. Kinnier Wilson, author of "The Legend of Etana" (1985), offers a collection of commentaries and discussions on the Akkadian Epic of Etana, taking into consideration new fragments, new editions and new translations, which have been published during the last two decades. Thus, new light is shed among others on Etana's famous flights to heaven, the death of his wife Muanna and his own death.

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Full title :Studia Etanaica : new texts and discussions / James Kinnier Wilson.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ugarit Verlag
Place of Publication:Münster
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

Description:95 pages, 15 pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783934628908, 3934628907
oclc:ocn159921381
LC Classification:BS620
Dewey Decimal:892.1

Part I: Additions and corrections to the known story -- 1. Notes on the Introduction and a new text of the Old Version, Tablet I -- 2. At the pit -- 3. From the pit to the heaven of Anu -- 4. The flights to heaven -- 5. The meeting with Ishtar -- 6. During the pregnancy -- Part II: Terra incognita -- 7. The return of the eagle -- 8. The death of Muanna -- 9. The death of Etana -- 10. Completing the story -- 11. Additional lines from the Middle Assyrian Version -- 12. How many Tablets? -- Appendix: A brief note on K 6845.

Subjects

18.70 Semitic languages and/or literatu… Akkadisk litteratur -- historia Assyro-Babylonian literature Assyro-Babylonian literature -- History… Criticism, interpretation, etc Etana (Epic) Etana-epos (anoniem) Etana-Mythos Mésopotamie Mesopotamien -- historia