Epic of Gilgamesh

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English-language translations of Epic of Gilgamesh include:

Old Babylonian texts (1900 BCE–1600 BCE)

1. Surpassing all other kings, Tablets II–III
   1. Tablet II ('The Pennsylvania Tablet', PBS X/3)
      1. In The Epic of Gilgamish (1917), translated by Stephen Langdon
      2. In An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic (1920), translated by Morris Jastrow and Albert Tobias Clay
   2. Tablet III ('The Yale Tablet', YOR IV/3)
      1. In An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic (1920), translated by Morris Jastrow and Albert Tobias Clay

Standard Babylonian text (1300 BCE–1000 BCE)

1. He who saw the Deep
   1. Tablet XI
      1. "The Chaldean Account of the Deluge" (1872), a speech delivered by George Smith to the Society of Biblical Archaeology translating what would become known as the eleventh tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
   2. Tablets I–XII
      1. In The Chaldean Account of Genesis (1876), by George Smith, a revision and expansion of his initial translation.

"The Epic of Gilgamesh" (1898), translated by Morris Jastrow. Pages 467 to 517.

See also

• "Gilgamesh, Epic of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)