z, IM67564
This tablet, kept at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, is written in a Neo-Assyrian script that
probably dates to before the time of the Kuyunjik libraries.^508 It originally contained six
columns, holding sections of tablet X and tablet XI, as well as some sections that are un-
known in the standard Babylonian epic. This tablet was excavated from the temple of
Nabû at Nimrud (ancient Kalḫu), E-zida, a building that was most likely erected at the
end of the ninth century B.C.E. Double vertical rulings separate the columns, though the
text often exceeds the margins. Horizontal rulings separate the text into sections.
(^)
Table - Number of SU Preserved in the First Millennium Gilgamesh XI Tablets
Fragment Total SU
C 791.5
J1-2 1014
T1-2 430.5
W1-3 487.5
b 62.5
c1-3 124
j 260
z 27.5
The following table gives the total number of SU and the total count of variant forms for
each set of two parallel tablets preserving at least 20 SU in common. Following this table
is an exhaustive list of all variant readings between any two first millennium sources for
Gilgamesh XI that overlap in content, regardless of the amount of overlapping text pre-
served. Although every variant is given in the list, the discussion of the variants will refer
(^508) See A.R. George, Gilgamesh, 364-65 for a full description of the tablet and its contents. The script is
classified as early Neo-Assyrian.