Babylonian Cuneiform Epic Gilgamesh Mesopotamia Sculptural relief carving www.Neo-Mfg.com Museum Reproduction

Babylonian Cuneiform Epic Gilgamesh Mesopotamia Sculptural relief carving www.Neo-Mfg.com Museum Reproduction Called the form of the Epic in the fragments from the library of Ashurbanapal the Assyrian version. Though like most of the cuneiforms it not only reverts to a Babylonian original , but represents a late copy of a much older original . The absence of any reference to Assyria in the fragments recovered justifies in assuming that the Assyrian version received its present form in Babylonia, perhaps in Erech. possible that some of the late features , particularly the elaboration of the teachings of the theologians or schoolmen in the eleventh and twelfth tablets , may have been produced at least in part under Assyrian influence . MUSEUM LINK https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-BC-016806 To read the book about the tablet from 1920 Yale research Morris Jastrow Jr. and Albert T. Clay https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/AnOldBabylonianVersionoftheGilgameshEpic_1