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  2. Andrew R. George - Wikipedia

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    Andrew R. George (born 1955) is a British Assyriologist and academic best known for his edition and translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh.Andrew George is Professor of Babylonian, Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

  3. Sîn-lēqi-unninni - Wikipedia

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    The extent to which his version is different from earlier texts is unknown; Andrew R. George argues that Sîn-lēqi-unninni "gave [The Epic of Gilgamesh] its final, fixed form". [4] Tigay acknowledges that Sîn-lēqi-unninni shifted "Gilgamesh's greatness from deeds to the acquisition of knowledge". [5]

  4. Epic of Gilgamesh - Wikipedia

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    The Epic of Gilgamesh (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ɡ ə m ɛ ʃ /) [2] is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia.The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames" [3]), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BCE). [1]

  5. Urshanabi - Wikipedia

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    The Babylonian Gilgamesh epic: introduction, critical edition and cuneiform texts. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-814922-0. OCLC 51668477. George, Andrew R. (2014), "Ur-šanabi", Reallexikon der Assyriologie; Kilmer, Anne Draffkorn (1996). "Crossing the Waters of Death: The "Stone Things" in the Gilgamesh Epic".

  6. List of characters in Epic of Gilgamesh - Wikipedia

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    According to Andrew R. George, evidence for the latter interpretation is present both the epic itself and in the earlier poem Death of Gilgamesh. [12] After introducing Enkidu to his mother, Ninsun, Gilgamesh decides to embark on an expedition to the cedar forest to acquire valuable wood. [ 13 ]

  7. Gilgamesh flood myth - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, Andrew George translated a 3,200 year old tablet dating to around 1200 B.C. found during excavations at Ugarit. The tablet contains a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh, including parts of the story of Utnapishtim and the flood. [10]

  8. Ninsun - Wikipedia

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    Ninsun predicts that Gilgamesh and Enkidu will become close (according to Andrew R. George: that they will become lovers), [55] which comes true after their subsequent duel. [56] Both Ninsun and the dream sequences are absent from the Hittite translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh known from Hattusa. [57]

  9. George Smith (Assyriologist) - Wikipedia

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    George Smith (26 March 1840 – 19 August 1876) was a pioneering English Assyriologist who first discovered and translated the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest-known written works of literature. [ 1 ]

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