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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 10.171-172: A journey of a new moon and the 15th; (then) on the third day [
] Ur-shanabi reached the Waters [of Death].
Homer, Odyssey 5.278-280: For seventeen days he (=Odysseus) sailed on across the sea, and on the eighteenth appeared the shadowed mountains of the Phaeacians land at its nearest point to him.
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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 10.171-172
Homer, Odyssey 5.278-280
Bibliography
West 1997, 406, 411 | West, Martin L. The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997. |
Amar Annus
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