The Epic of Gilgamish

 

 

A new translation from a collation of the

cuneiform tablets in the British Museum

rendered literally into English hexameters

 

 

 

 

 

 

By

R. CAMPBELL THOMPSON

M.A., D. Litt., F.S.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. LUZAC & CO., 46 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, W.C.1.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1928

TO

COLONEL W. H. BEACH, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., R.E.,

UNDER WHOM I SERVED FOR THREE YEARS IN MESOPOTAMIA,

WHO BEST KNEW HOW TO ASSESS THE WORTH OF ORIENTAL STORIES