1. Recovering the Epic Of Gilgamesh
... together in late 19th and early 20th centuries, drawing attention to particular features of various early translations, such as the German scholar Paul Haupt's pen-and-ink drawings of the cuneiform text of the Epic (Haupt 1884–91). George commends Peter Jenson's transliterated (Romanised) translation of the Epic (1900) as "an extraordinary feat of scholarship" (p.2) noting that ... this is founded upon systematic, methodical knowledge of the language and informed by Haupt's drawings. During the 20th century with further discovery of cuneiform tablets, the complexity of the process of ...
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