Mesopotamian religion and literature

Epic of Gilgamesh

Sin-leqi-unninni (traditional compiler) · c. 2100-1200 BCE · Akkadian

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Editions

• tr. R. Campbell Thompson (1928) 134 passages · published 1928, before 1930
• tr. Morris Jastrow Jr., Albert T. Clay (1920) 12 passages · published 1920, before 1930

Themes: Death and mortality, Meaning, Wisdom