000321574 000__ 02033cam\a2200337\a\4500 000321574 001__ 321574 000321574 005__ 20210513115900.0 000321574 008__ 060627s2007\\\\nyuab\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000321574 010__ $$a 2006049523 000321574 020__ $$a9780805080292 000321574 020__ $$a0805080295 000321574 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm70230776 000321574 035__ $$a321574 000321574 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dBAKER$$dBTCTA$$dC#P$$dYDXCP$$dBUR$$dIXA$$dGK8$$dVP@ 000321574 043__ $$aa-iq--- 000321574 049__ $$aISEA 000321574 05000 $$aPJ3771.G6$$bD36 2007 000321574 08200 $$a809/.93353$$222 000321574 1001_ $$aDamrosch, David. 000321574 24514 $$aThe buried book :$$bthe loss and rediscovery of the great Epic of Gilgamesh /$$cDavid Damrosch. 000321574 250__ $$a1st ed. 000321574 260__ $$aNew York :$$bH. Holt,$$c2007. 000321574 300__ $$axi, 315 p. :$$bill., map ;$$c25 cm. 000321574 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-293) and index. 000321574 5050_ $$aThe broken tablets -- Early fame and sudden death -- The lost library -- The fortress and the museum -- After Ashurbanipal, the deluge -- At the limits of culture -- The vanishing point. 000321574 520__ $$aComposed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around 1200 BCE, the Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history, the Odyssey and the Bible. But in 600 BCE, the clay tablets that bore the story were lost--buried beneath ashes and ruins when the library of King Ashurbanipal was sacked in a raid. This book begins with the rediscovery of the epic and its decipherment in 1872 by George Smith, a brilliant self-taught linguist, who created a sensation when he discovered Gilgamesh among thousands of undistinguished tablets in the British Museum. From there the story goes backward in time, all the way to Gilgamesh himself.--From publisher description. 000321574 63000 $$aGilgamesh. 000321574 650_0 $$aAssyriology$$xHistory. 000321574 85200 $$bgen$$hPJ3771.G6$$iD36$$i2007 000321574 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2006049523-b.html 000321574 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2006049523-d.html 000321574 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:321574$$pGLOBAL_SET 000321574 980__ $$aBIB 000321574 980__ $$aBOOK 000321574 994__ $$aC0$$bISE