Adraḫasis and Parnapištim

In The Independent (New-York) of February io fch and 17 th 1898 I published two articles on The New Version of the Babylonian Account of the Deluge, the discovery of which we owe to the indefatigable Father SCHEIL.r ) My study of this new version led me to certain conclusions regarding its relationship to the tale incorporated in the Gilgamesh epic that, I venture to hope, will be of interest to Assyriologists in general; and inasmuch as The Independent is a journal of a popular character and not likely to reach specialists, it may be of some use to indicate in the Zeitschrift the main points of the article together with some additional observations.That SCHEII/S tablet contains an account of a deluge and that this account is sufficiently similar to the narrative in the Gilgamesh epic to be called a 'version', may be regarded as certain.But the chief value of the new version lies in the possibility that it affords us of separating the component parts of the story as given in the Gilgamesh i) The first communication on the subject was made by SCHEIL at the 11** 1 oriental congress held in Paris

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