Gilgameš
? · Uruk
Gilgameš is the hero of the most celebrated work of Mesopotamian literature, remembered as a king of Uruk in its legendary age. In the epic he is matched by the gods with the wild man Enkidu, with whom he slays the forest-guardian Ḫumbaba and the Bull of Heaven; Enkidu's death then drives him on a failed quest for immortality, ending in the hard wisdom that eternal life belongs to the gods alone while a lasting name is humanity's portion. He appears in the Sumerian King List among the kings of the First Dynasty of Uruk.
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Uruk
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About Uruk
One of the oldest cities of Sumer, sacred to Inanna and Anu, in the southern Iraqi marsh-plain east of the Euphrates. The pin marks the findspot of the excavated tablet.
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