ABSTRACT
Tišpak, his seal, and a monster play a part in a myth imperfectly preserved on a tablet from the library of Assurbanipal, Rm. 282, copied by Delitzsch (AW 390f.) and King (CT 13:33f.), and translated and annotated by A. Heidel, The Babylonian Genesis 2 (1951):141f., who entitled it ‘The Slaying of the Labbu’. Later Jacobsen (1932:53f.) and Lambert (1986:55f.) contributed important insights towards its understanding, but an up-to-date edition is yet to appear (for older editions see Heidel 1951:141 1 ). The entry 107, Le Mythe du Labbu, in the bibliography of J. Bottéro (1985:345) refers to a brief paragraph in the original text of Annuaire 1978–79, 86, omitted from the re-edition of his article in Mythes et Rites de Babylone, 279ff. The text attracted some attention from scholars outside the field of Assyriology, notably J. Fontenrose, (1959:608, Index), and N. Forsyth (1987:44f).
