BAPLAR: The Recordings

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Ammi-Ditana’s Hymn to Ishtar

• Read by Karl Hecker
• Read by Doris Prechel

The Codex Hammurabi

• Prologue i 1-49, read by Albert Naccache
• Epilogue xlix 18-28 and 53-80, read by Aage Westenholz

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Old Babylonian Version, Tablet II

• Lines 1-38, read by Antoine Cavigneaux
• Lines 1-36, read by Stephanie Dalley
• Lines 1-239, read by Karl Hecker
• Lines 1-61, read by Jacob Klein
• Lines 85-111, read by Michael Streck
• Lines 1-47, read by Nathan Wasserman
• Lines 87-105, read by Aage Westenholz

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Old Babylonian Version, BM+VAT

• Lines ii.0'-iii.14, read by Martin West

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Old Babylonian Version, Tablet X

• Lines iii.1–14, read by John Huehnergard

The Epic of Anzû, Old Babylonian Version, Tablet II

• Lines 1-83, read by Claus Wilcke

Atra-Hasīs, Old Babylonian Version, Tablet I

• Lines i.1-iii.16, read by Claus Wilcke

Diviner's Prayer to the Gods of the Night

• Read by Michael Streck

Incantation for Dog Bite

• Read by Michael Streck

Letter of Marduk-nāṣir to Ruttum (AbB III 15)

• Read by Wilfred van Soldt 

Letter of Kurkurtum to Erīb-Sîn (AbB XII 89)

• Read by Wilfred van Soldt

Letter of Iddin-Sîn to Zinû (AbB XIV 165)

• Read by John Huehnergard

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Standard Version, Tablet XI

• Lines 1-29, read by Stephanie Dalley
• Lines 1-163, read by Karl Hecker
• Lines 8-44, read by Victor Hurowitz
• Lines 1-34, read by Nathan Wasserman
• Lines 92-139, read by Martin West

The Babylonian Poem of the Righteous Sufferer (Ludlul bēl nēmeqi), Tablet II

• Lines 1-26, read by Antoine Cavigneaux
• Lines 1-46, read by Mario Fales
• Lines 1-26 and 56-82, read by Brigitte Groneberg
• Entire Tablet, read by Karl Hecker
• Lines 1-55, read by Margaret Jaques Cavigneaux
• Lines 1-55, read by Gebhard J. Selz
• Lines 1-33, read by Nathan Wasserman

The Babylonian Epic of Creation (Enūma elîš), Tablet I

• Lines 1-20, read by Ivan Hrůša
• Lines 1-13, read by Victor Hurowitz
• Lines 1-16, read by Jan Keetman

Incantation for Tooth Worm

• Lines 1-23, read by Alex Barker
• Lines 1-23, read by George Heath-Whyte

Ištar's Descent to the Netherworld

• Lines 1-125, read by Martin West

The Šamaš Hymn

• Lines 15-52, read by Martin West

The Poor Man of Nippur

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