3. Sample texts in cuneiform

1. e-nu-ma e-liš
   Babylonian epic of creation, Enuma elish, tablet I
   
   1. cuneiform text + transliteration (in .ps-file format)
      or in .pdf-file format, readable with the Acrobat-reader. The text has cuneiform on uneven pages and transliteration to syllables and words on even pages.
      Or cuneiform text only in .gif-file format, in sets of separate images:
      • [ lines 1-19] [ lines 20-40] [ lines 41-59] [ lines 60-80] [ lines 81-99] [ lines 100-120] [ lines 121-139] [ lines 140-162]
      And transliteration in .gif-file format, in sets of separate images:
      • [ lines 1-19] [ lines 20-40] [ lines 41-59] [ lines 60-80] [ lines 81-99] [ lines 100-120] [ lines 121-139] [ lines 140-162]
   2. About the epic of creation (to be written)
   3. First few lines explained in detail
   4. For translation see Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia
   5. a translation of all tablets is given elsewhere on the net [dead link?]
2. Codex Hammurabi
   
   • Codex Hammurabi, prologue (in .ps-file format, 6 pages)
     An Old Babylonian text, here with cuneiform transliterated in New Assyrian form on uneven pages and transcription to syllables and words on even pages.
     This is the famous Hammurabi law code, middle 19th century BC.
     
   • First few lines explained.
   • Avalon Project: The Code of Hammurabi
   • Old commentary from the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, elsewhere on WWW.

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