Ishtar and Izdubar

Description

A Victorian poetic translation of the saga of Izdubar. Izdubar is a literal translation of the ideograph for 'Gilgamesh', and was how the hero of the Gilgamesh saga was known when this book was written in the 1880s. A lexicographic tablet was finally discovered several decades later in which Izdubar was equated with Gilgamesh.

This book has 201 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1884.

Production notes: This ebook of Ishtar and Izdubar was published by Global Grey in 2018.