Language: Akkadian
Text: 12 Tablets. Sumerian, Akkadian, Middle Babylonian, Hittite, Hurrian
Provenance: Babylonia, Assyria: Multiple; Anatolia, Palestine, Syria
Date: 2100-100 B.C. (Oldest copy of Sumerian Gilgamesh poem c. 2100 BC; most complete version: Standard Babylonian c. 1200-1000 B.C.)
Story: Escapades of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk (2800 B.C.) and Enkidu; Gilgamesh’s search for immortality and meeting with flood hero, Utnapistim.
Heroes: Gilgamesh
Utnapistim (Flood hero) (Flood Tablet = Gilgamesh Tablet XI)
