Bilgames and Akka
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Date: c. 2100–1800 B.C.E.
This poem was known in antiquity by its incipit, ‘The envoys of Akka’. It is the shortest of the Sumerian tales of Bilgames and also the best preserved. It must have been a favourite copy-text in Old Babylonian schools. It differs from the other four Sumerian poems in having no obvious counterpart in the Akkadian material, though the consultation of the elders and the young men in assembly is a motif also found – in different context – in Tablet II of the standard version of the Babylonian epic.
Andrew George, trans., The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian (London: Penguin Books, 2000), 143.
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