Curated texts / Epic Hunt
Epic Hunt
Narrative and mythological fragments: gods in council, monsters defeated, floods and a goddess's self-praise. Most have only scholarly print editions. The English shown is an unedited machine draft.
Machine drafts. Every English quotation here is unedited output of an ATF-to-English model, not a scholarly translation. Each card names its source; cards marked machine English only come from sources (eBL) whose transliterations we do not republish.
9 tablets
Gilgamesh, Old Babylonian Tablet II (CBS 07771)
Gilgamesh II 001-003 CBS 07771 · Nippur (mod. Nuffar) · Old Babylonian“I will go to you, Enkidu, like a god,”line 11
The Pennsylvania tablet of the Old Babylonian Gilgamesh epic from Nippur: Enkidu’s arrival among shepherds and the meeting with Gilgamesh.
Read the tablet →Marduk speaks before Enlil
BM.27776 · find-spot unknown · Neo-Babylonian“The king of the gods, Marduk, opens his mouth and speaks favorable words to Enlil.”line 10
Neo-Babylonian narrative fragment: Marduk argues his case before Enlil and the gods.
Read the tablet →Ištar proclaims herself
VAT.10395 · Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) · Neo-Assyrian“I am Itar in the midst of the flood, in the midst of the flood.”line 26'
Neo-Assyrian literary text from Assur in which the goddess praises herself.
Read the tablet →An Old Babylonian creation myth
BM.78962 · find-spot unknown · Old Babylonian“Enlil saw him, and the king, the gods, the warriors”line 22
Nearly complete Old Babylonian Akkadian narrative about the gods.
Read the tablet →Anu and the flood
BM.98977 · Nineveh · Neo-Assyrian“He became afraid and Anu shouted about the flood”line 20'
Neo-Assyrian flood narrative from Nineveh, related to the Atra-ḫasīs story.
Read the tablet →The defeat of Enutila, Enmešarra and Qingu
BM.47530 · find-spot unknown · Neo-Babylonian“of his 7 sons, with the evil weapon he annihilated them.”line 11'
Neo-Babylonian mythological fragment about the defeat of divine enemies (print edition: W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths).
Read the tablet →Marduk and Enmešarra
BM.32462 · Babylon (mod. Bābil) · Late Babylonian“To Marduk, his lord, he speaks a word:”line 3'
Late Babylonian narrative fragment from Babylon.
Read the tablet →Agušaya, hymn-epic of Ištar (VS 10, 214)
VS 10, 214 · find-spot unknown · Old Babylonian“the gods of the house have rejoiced over her”line 30'
Old Babylonian poem about the warrior goddess Ištar (Agušaya A); print translations exist.
Read the tablet →The Murder of Anšar
BM.33483 · Babylon (mod. Bābil) · Neo-Babylonian“You did not write a word to my hero”line 20'
Neo-Babylonian mythological narrative from Babylon (print edition: Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths).
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