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Dating the Gilgamesh Epic

Though some may estimate dates with C-14 of plant and bacteria in the clay, the epic can also be dated by the Damuzi poem which says Venus rose from the dead the day Mars turned around into Scorpio. A search of the sky results in a rare event that comes closest as the two dates 2040bc April 26 (G.Apr 9) and 1645bc March 10 (G.Feb 25). According to Genesis Hebrew short chronology, this Noah would be alive for the first epic and dead for the rewritten copy of it. The 2040bc date does not match the long chronology such as Egypt which places the three men (biblical Peleg, and 5th dynasty Unas Sakkara, and Gilgamesh at 2321bc), nor other timelines that place these men as year 740 after the Flood such as 2217bc and 2207bc.

Look again

AFAICT from the Sumerian kings list article, this statement is not true. "An "Atra-Hasis" appears on one of the Sumerian king lists as king of Shuruppak in the times before the flood." Please look again and see if you have copied text and changed it without doing the research. 71.163.114.49 (talk) 10:57, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

if not a conflict

then explain how Old Babylonian of the most complete version is also "the most complete version ... in Akkadian." I know the answer but it's not clear from the article that you do. 108.18.136.147 (talk) 20:10, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

link rot

The link to the British Museum has a 404 error on it. 100.15.138.239 (talk) 13:06, 7 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Discrepancies in the number of years before the Igigu rebelled.

The description provided in this article regarding Table 1 states:

"Enlil, the god of Earth, assigned junior dingirs (Sumerian: 𒀭, lit. 'divines') to perform farm labor and maintain the rivers and canals. However, after 40 years, the lesser dingirs rebelled and refused to engage in strenuous labor.”

The 40-year timeframe aligns with the translation found in the Electronic Babylonian Library (https://www.ebl.lmu.de/corpus/L/1/1/OB/I).

However, there appears to be a discrepancy with other translations, such as the one by British Assyriologist Stephanie Dalley, which states that they worked for over 3,000 years (https://geha.paginas.ufsc.br/files/2017/04/Atrahasis.pdf).

We need to find out which translation is the most accurate, because the discrepancies are enormous. PurpleDandelion (talk) 15:49, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]