100
_seq._ touches upon this _motif_, but fails to see the main point that
the companions are also twins or at least brothers. Hence such examples
as Abraham and Lot, David and Jonathan, Achilles and Patroclus,
Eteokles and Polyneikes, are not parallels to Gilgamesh-Enkidu, but
belong to the _enlargement_ of the _motif_ so as to include companions
who are _not_ regarded as brothers.
[126] Or Romus. See Rendell Harris, l. c., p. 59, note 2.
[127] One might also include the primeval pair Yama-Yami with their
equivalents in Iranian mythology (Carnoy, _Iranian Mythology_,
p. 294 _seq._).
[128] Becoming, however, a triad and later increased to
seven. Cf. Rendell Harris, l. c., p. 32.
[129] I am indebted to my friend, Professor A. J. Carnoy, of the
University of Louvain, for having kindly gathered and placed at my
disposal material on the "twin-brother" _motif_ from Indo-European
sources, supplemental to Rendell Harris' work.
[130] On the other hand, _Uruk m?tum_ for the district of Erech, i.e.,
the territory over which the city holds sway, appears in both versions
(Pennsylvania tablet, 1. 10 = Assyrian version I, 5, 36).
[131] "My likeness" (line 27). It should be noted, however, that
lines 32-44 of I, 5, in Jensen's edition are part of a fragment K 9245
(not published, but merely copied by Bezold and Johns, and placed at
Jensen's disposal), which may represent a _duplicate_ to I, 6, 23-34,
with which it agrees entirely except for one line, viz.
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