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John Wilkinson, ed., Jerusalem Pilgrimage, 1099–1185 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1988), p. 173.

Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, “The Early Islamic Monuments of al-Haram al-Sharif: An Iconographic Study,” Qedem 28 (Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew Univ., 1989), p. 44.

Raymond of Aguilers, chaplain to the Count of Toulouse, in Edward Peters, ed., The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1971), p. 214.

See Priscilla Soucek, “The Temple of Solomon in Islamic Legend and Art,” in The Temple of Solomon: Archaeological Fact and Medieval Tradition in Christian, Islamic and Jewish Art, ed. Joseph Gutmann (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1976).

Gabrieli, Arab Historians, pp. 171–172.

Francesco Gabrieli, ed., Arab Historians of the Crusades: Selected and Translated from the Arabic Sources (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1969), p. 169.

This historical sketch is unobjectionable in its most general outline. I should note, however, that not all scholars will agree with my contentions (1) that the earliest form of the epic did not contain the Utnapishtim episode but that the meeting with Siduri was the climax of Gilgamesh’s wanderings, (2) that the encounter with Ishtar in Tablet VI was a post-Old Babylonian insertion and (3) that the addition of Tablet XII was meaningful.