GILGAMESH

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• GILGAMESH (noun)
  The noun GILGAMESH has 1 sense:

1. a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories

  Familiarity information: GILGAMESH used as a noun is very rare.

• GILGAMESH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)

 Context examples 

Nine lines etched on ancient clay tablets that tell the Gilgamesh Flood story can now be understood in very different ways – according to a Cambridge academic.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

The Gilgamesh Flood story is known from clay tablets that date back around three thousand years.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

The Flood Tablet in the British Museum, which bears part of the Gilgamesh Flood story, is probably the world’s most famous clay tablet, and caused a global sensation when its significance was first discovered by Assyriologist George Smith in 1872.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

In his new book launched today (November 26) titled Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood story, he explores the tricks of ‘wily Ea’, who is also known as the ‘crafty god’ and the ‘trickster god’.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)