JASTROW-CLAY • OLD BABYLONIAN GILGAMESH EPIC
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| 25 [šú-na]-ta i-ta-wa-a-am a-na um-mi-šú |
Dream, which he reported to his mother:
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[um-mi] a-ta-mar šá-ni-tam |
[“My mother,] I have seen another
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[šú-na-tu a-ta]-mar e-mi-a i-na su-ḳi-im |
[Dream.] My likeness I have seen in the streets
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[šá Uruk]ki ri-bi-tim |
[Of Erech] of the plazas.
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ḫa-aṣ-ṣi-nu na-di-i-ma |
An axe was brandished, and
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| 30 e-li-šú pa-aḫ-ru |
They gathered about him;
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ḫa-aṣ-ṣi-nu-um-ma šá-ni bu-nu-šú |
And the axe made him angry.
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a-mur-šú-ma aḫ-ta-du a-na-ku |
I saw him and I rejoiced,
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a-ra-am-šú-ma ki-ma áš-šá-tim |
I loved him as a woman,
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a-ḫa-ab-bu-ub el-šú |
I embraced him.
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| 35 el-ki-šú-ma áš-ta-ka-an-šú |
I took him and regarded him
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a-na a-ḫi-ia |
As my brother.”
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um-mi dGiš mu-da-at [ka]-la-ma |
The mother of Gish, who knows all things,
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[iz-za-kàr-am a-na dGiš] |
[Spoke to Gish]:
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[dGiš šá ta-mu-ru amêlu] |
[“O Gish, the man whom thou sawest,]
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| 40 [ta-ḫa-ab-bu-ub ki-ma áš-šá-tim el-šú] |
[Whom thou didst embrace like a woman].
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Col. II.
áš-šum uš-[ta]-ma-ḫa-ru it-ti-ka |
(means) that he is to be associated with thee.”
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dGiš šú-na-tam i-pa-šar |
Gish understood the dream.
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dEn-ki-[dũ wa]-ši-ib ma-ḫar ḫa-ri-im-tim |
[As] Enki[du] was sitting before the woman,
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ur-[šá ir]-ḫa-mu di-da-šá(?) ip-tí-[e] |
[Her] loins(?) he embraced, her vagina(?) he opened.
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| 45 [dEn-ki]-dũ im-ta-ši a-šar i-wa-al-du |
[Enkidu] forgot the place where he was born.
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ûm, 6 ù 7 mu-ši-a-tim |
Six days and seven nights
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dEn-[ki-dũ] ti-bi-i-ma |
Enkidu continued
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šá-[am-ka-ta] ir-ḫi |
To cohabit with [the courtesan].
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ḫa-[ri-im-tum pa-a]-šá i-pu-šá-am-ma |
[The woman] opened her [mouth] and
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| 50 iz-za-[kàr-am] a-na dEn-ki-dũ |
Spoke to Enkidu:
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a-na-tal-ka dEn-ki-dũ ki-ma ili ta-ba-áš-ši |
“I gaze upon thee, O Enkidu, like a god art thou!
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am-mi-nim it-ti na-ma-áš-te-e |
Why with the cattle
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ta-at-ta-[na-al]-ak ṣi-ra-am |
Dost thou [roam] across the field?
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