EN 2643 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Droit Du Seigneur, Shamhat, Enkidu
8 Jan 2017
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Young english traveller passing through middle east. Nineveh (iraq): lost city of ruined palaces discovered while digging. Ashurbanipal: syrian king of palace of nineveh. Tummal inscription: inscription of ancient sumer dedicated to goddess ninlil. & gilgamesh - proof that they actually did exist & not made up. Royal assyrian libraries: inside discovered lost city palace of nineveh. Cuneiform: 10"s of thousands of tablets found in library. Britain looters: 25,000 tablets sent to britain &still have today(not right!) ^ brit"s also stole marble eyeballs from athens & george clooney + wife trying to get brit to give back to rightful country. Poem: cuneiform tablets are pieces of a poem - now poem of gilgamesh. George smith: expert at translation & lost language - spent 40 years at. British museum - world"s greatest natural history museum. V1: sumerian language about 4,100 years ago (500 years after gilgamesh"s ruling) V2: old akkadian language about 3,700 years ago (500 years after v1)
