sources: SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH

The sources grounding every entity classification and relationship in the database (live count on the home page and in v_release_metrics). Primary texts include the Pyramid Texts (c. 2375 BCE), Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, the Masoretic Text, Nag Hammadi corpus, Avesta, Ginza Rba, the Chaldean Oracles, the Corpus Hermeticum, Quran, and more. Secondary scholarship covers standard academic monographs for each tradition.

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SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH Andrew R. George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2003)   primary text The definitive critical edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh in all its versions (Old Babylonian, Middle Babylonian, Standard Babylonian, Sumerian); primary source for Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Utnapishtim, and Ninsun; essential for the flood narrative (Tablet XI), the Cedar Forest episode, the Bull of Heaven, and the quest for immortality; also covers the Sumerian Gilgamesh poems

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