Gilgamesh relief

Relief of Gilgamesh, a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC. He was possibly a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, who was posthumously deified. His rule would have taken place in the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period, c. 2900 – 2350 BC, though he became a major f…