YALE ORIENTAL SERIES
RESEARCHES
VOLUME IV
PART III
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MARY STEVENS HAMMOND
AN OLD BABYLONIAN VERSION
OF THE GILGAMESH EPIC
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BY
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PROFESSOR OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
AND
ALBERT T. CLAY, PH.D., LL.D., LITT.D.
PROFESSOR OF ASSYRIOLOGY AND BABYLONIAN LITERATURE
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