[1001] The reference to the killing of a panther in the tenth tablet (Haupt, p. 71, 6) is too obscure to be taken into consideration. Gilgamesh's fight with a 'buffalo' (so Ward, "Babylonian Gods in Babylonian Art," Proc. Amer. Or. Soc., May, 1890, p. xv) is pictured on seal cylinders. No doubt, various deeds of Gilgamesh were recounted in the missing portions of the epic, and it is also quite likely that besides the stories in the epic, others were current of Gilgamesh to which a literary form was never given.
[1002] The Parnapishtim episode passed on to the Arabs, where the hero of the deluge appears under the name of Khadir—a corruption of Adra-Khasis. See Lidzbarski, "Wer ist Chadir?" Zeits. f. Assyr. vii. 109-112, who also suggests that Ahasverus, 'the Wandering Jew,' is a corruption of Adrakhasis.
[1003] It will be recalled that Nimrod is termed a 'mighty hunter' (säid). This suggests a comparison with Sadu, 'the hunter,' in the Gilgamesh epic. See above, p. [475].
[1004] Originally suggested by H. C. Rawlinson.
[1005] The ending ôn is an emphatic affix—frequent in proper names.
[1006] Euripides' Herakles, Einleitung.
[1007] On this subject see the Introduction to Berard's De l'origine des cultes Arcadiens, and for a further discussion of the relationships between Izdubar and Hercules, see Jeremias' Izdubar-Nimrod, pp. 70-73, or his article in Roscher's Ausführliches Lexicon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie, ii. 821-823.
[1008] Meissner, Alexander und Gilgamos (Leipzig, 1894), pp. 13-17.
[1009] In the Greek and other versions, the mountain Musas or Masis is mentioned,—that is, Mashu, as in the Gilgamesh epic. See p. [488].
[1010] See especially Budge, The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great (London, Introduction, 1896); Nöldeke, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Alexander-Romans (Vienna, 1890) and Gaster, An Old Hebrew Romance of Alexander (Journal Royal Asiat. Soc., 1897, pp. 485-498).