'Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld' and the Sumerian Gilgamesh cycle

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Title
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
On Transliteration and Conventions
I. “Gilgameš, Enkidu and the Netherworld”: An Overview
	1. Status Quaestionis
	2. Summary of the Composition
II. The Prologue of “Gilgameš, Enkidu and the Netherworld”
	1. Status Quaestionis
	2. The Cosmology of the Prologue: GEN 1-13
	3. The Journey of Enki to the kur: GEN 14-26
		3.1 The Destination of Enki’s Journey
		3.2 The Outcome of Enki’s Journey
		3.3 The Reasons for Enki’s Journey
		3.4 The Waters to the Netherworld
		3.5 The Attack against Enki
		3.6 The Function of the Story
	4. The Function of the Prologue I: GEN
	5. The Function of the Prologue II: The Sumerian Gilgameš Cycle
	6. Conclusions
III. The Ḫalub-Tree
	1. Introduction
	2. The Ḫalub-Tree in Lexical Lists
	3. The Ḫalub-Tree in the Third Millennium BCE Royal Inscriptions
	4. The mes-ḫalub-Tree in the Administrative Texts from Early Dynastic IIIb Girsu
	5. The Ḫalub-Tree in the Administrative texts from Ur III Period
	6. The Ḫalub-Tree in Ur III Incantations
	7. The Ḫalub-Tree in Sumerian Literary Compositions
	8. The Ḫa-lu-úb ḫar-ra-an
	9. The Ḫuluppu-Tree in Akkadian Sources
	10. Conclusions: The Epigraphic Evidence
	11. Ḫalub = Mahlab Cherry
	12. Conclusions
IV. Narrative and Poetic Structure
	1. Status Quaestionis
	2. Poetic Structure
	3. Narrative Structure
	4. Analysis of the Narrative Units
		4.1 Prologue
		4.2 The ?alub-tree episode
		4.3 The Ballgame
		4.4 The Descent to the Netherworld
		4.5 The Description of the Netherworld
		4.6 The Return of Gilgameš and Enkidu to Uruk (Ur tradition)
	5. Conclusions
V. Enkidu Redivivus
	1. Introduction
	2. Bringing Enkidu Back from the Dead
	3. The Meturan Catch-Line
	4. Conclusions
VI. The Sumerian Gilgameš Cycle
	1. Introduction
	2. Status Quaestionis
	3. The Internal Evidence
		3.1 The Prologue
		3.2 Doxologies and Colophons
		3.3 The End of GEN According to the Ur Tradition
		3.4 The Meturan Catch-line
		3.5 Gilgameš’s Deeds According to the “Death of Gilgameš”
	4. External Evidence: Archaeological Evidence
	5. Evidence Against a Cycle?
	6. Conclusions
VII. Enkidu’s Return and The Catalogue of Ghosts: GEN ll. 255-end
	1. Introduction
	2. Mesopotamian Ghosts and How to Deal with Them
	3. If One has Heirs …: GEN 255-268
	4. If One has No Heir: GEN 269-278
	5. If One Dies … not Whole? GEN 279-286a and 305-306
	6. The Man whose Corpse Lies in the Steppe: GEN 289-289a
	7. The Disrespectful Ghosts: GEN 295-300
	8. The Respectful Ghost: GEN 301-302
	9. The Still-Born: GEN 303-304
	10. The Pedagogical Purposes of GEN 255-end
	11. The Underlying Message of GEN 255-end: Nippur, Ur and Meturan
		11.1 Nippur Tradition
		11.2 Ur Tradition
		11.3 Meturan Tradition
	12. Conclusions
VIII. The Manuscripts
	1. Introduction
	2. Provenience, Archaeological Context and Date of the Manuscripts
		2.1 Nippur
		2.2 Ur
		2.3 Meturan
		2.4 Sippar
		2.5 Isin
		2.6 Uruk
		2.7 Unknown Provenience
		2.8 Dating of GEN Manuscripts
	3. Tablet Types
		3.1 Excerpt Tablets (Type S)
		3.2 Multicolumn Tablets (Type M2/3)
		3.3 Prism (Type P)
	4. The List of the Sources
	5. Manuscripts and Textual Variants: Introduction
		5.1 Nippur Features
		5.2 Ur Features
		5.3 Meturan Features
		5.4 Sippar (Si1)
		5.5 Isin (Is1)
		5.6 Uruk (Uk1)
		5.7 Unknown Provenience: X1
	6. Variations in GEN: An Overview
		6.1 Omission of Signs
		6.2 Omission of Words
		6.3 Omission of Lines
		6.4 Addition of Morphemes
		6.5 Addition of Lexemes
		6.6 Addition of Lines
		6.6.1 Line Sequence’s Variation
		6.7 Substitution of Morphemes
		6.8 Substitution of Lexeme
		6.9 Substitution of Lines
The Edition
Translation
	Gilgameš Enkidu and the Netherworld
	Ur4 (UET 6/1 58, rev 6´–16´)
	Ur6 (UET 6/1 60, rev 1´–18´)
	Me2 (Mt2 27–29)
Eclectic Text
	Ur4 (UET 6/1 58, rev 6´–16´)
	Ur6 (UET 6/1 60, rev 1´–18´)
	Me2 (Mt2 rev 27–29)
Textual Matrix
	Ur4 (follows GEN l. 306) rev. 6´–16´
	Ur6 1´–18´
	Me2 rev. 27–29
Commentary
	Ur4 = UET 6/1 58 rev. 6´–16´
	Ur6 = UET 6/1 60 rev. 1´–18´
	H 157 = Me2 rev. 27–29
	Colophons and Doxologies
Appendix
	Reconstruction of Problematic Manuscripts
	1. N44
	2. Ur5
	3. Ur6
	4. X1
Bibliography
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