Notes on the Old Babylonian Epics of Anzu and Etana‪.‬

The following notes are the result of a new edition of the Old Babylonian manuscripts of the epics of Anzu and Etana prepared for the project "Sources of Early Akkadian Literature" (SEAL). SEAL has been funded by the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development since 2007. This project, headed by N. Wasserman (Jerusalem) and the author, aims to create a systematic and comprehensive corpus of Babylonian and Assyrian literary texts from the third and second millennia B.C.E. This corpus will be published on the internet (www.seal.uni-leipzig.de) and as a separate monograph. It provides transliterations, English translations, short commentaries, bibliographies, and indices of all known epics, hymns, prayers, laments, love-lyrics, incantations, wisdom-literature, and some other genres of Akkadian literature from this period. The Old Babylonian (OB) manuscripts of Anzu and Etana have been edited by C. W. Hess and the author. Some remarks of the former are included here and marked by his name. ANZU