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Cuneiform Tablet with Gilgamesh's Name in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2008

Cuneiform Tablet with Gilgamesh's Name in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2008
Cuneiform Tablet: excerpt from a list of deities
Clay
Mesopotamia
Neo-Babylonian period, 5th-4th century BC

Accession # 86.11.357

This tablet was part of a series that listed the names of many Mesopotamian deities, both major and minor. The fragment contains the name of the divine hero Gilgamesh, as well as the names of seven minor deities.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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