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The Newly Discovered Tablet II of the Epic of Gilgamesh
https://www.ancient.eu ^ | April 9, 2019 | Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Posted on 04/11/2019 8:19:00 PM PDT by Beowulf9

Acquisition In 2011 CE, the Sulaymaniyah (Slemani) Museum in Iraqi Kurdistan purchased a large number of clay tablets. After the dramatic fall of Saddam's regime on April 9, 2003 CE and the ransacking of the Iraq Museum as well as other museums, the Sulaymaniyah Museum (guided by the Council of Ministers of Iraqi Kurdistan) started an initiative, as part of an amnesty program. The museum paid smugglers to 'intercept' archaeological artefacts on their journey to other countries. No questions were asked about who was selling the relic or where it came from. The Sulaymaniyah Museum believed that this condition kept smugglers from selling their merchandise to other buyers (locally) or antiquities dealers (outside Iraq), as they would have otherwise done so with ease and without any legal consequences.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: babylon; chat; cuneiform; epicofgilgamesh; epigraphyandlanguage; erdogan; gilgamesh; godsgravesglyphs; history; iraq; kurdistan; receptayyiperdogan; turkey
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To: SteveH; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks SteveH. Hey, isn't it Friday? Seems like a good topic for the weekly Digest ping.

21 posted on 04/11/2019 9:24:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Beowulf9

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra


22 posted on 04/11/2019 9:24:50 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Olog-hai

Thank goodness there’s no quizzes on this website.. :)


23 posted on 04/11/2019 9:25:08 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: dp0622

That, and like most threads,
after the first five comments,
all the good snark is taken.


24 posted on 04/11/2019 9:31:55 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Beowulf9
They had the body of Gilgamesh in Iraq 2003 which was supposed to have been a dimi-god. What happened to it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9tYsa5QC38

25 posted on 04/11/2019 9:32:17 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: SunkenCiv

This is a good article. very interesting.


26 posted on 04/11/2019 9:35:50 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: vannrox
It's nice to know that so many tablets have never had a pair of eyes on them to record and then translate the texts. :^(

27 posted on 04/11/2019 9:50:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Picard and Dathon at El Adrel.


28 posted on 04/11/2019 10:15:59 PM PDT by DickBrannigan ("And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner!")
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To: Beowulf9
We're going to need the Professor to decipher this one.


29 posted on 04/11/2019 11:56:37 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Beowulf9

Sequel is rarely as good as the original


30 posted on 04/12/2019 1:33:09 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: sevlex

Just ask, “When did the common era start?”


31 posted on 04/12/2019 5:40:09 AM PDT by OSHA (What did I come in here for?)
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To: Beowulf9

Sumerians don’t have any original ideas anymore. They have to rehash old classics. Disney completely ruined the franchise.


32 posted on 04/12/2019 5:42:35 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (“Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts.”)
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To: Beowulf9
2011 CE... April 9, 2003 CE
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Uh?....The “CE” after 2011 and April 9, 2003 is necessary? Really?

Seems to me that the author and editors have an anti-Christian bug up their noses.

33 posted on 04/12/2019 6:14:56 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: sevlex

BCE = Before Christ Enters
CE = Christian Era


34 posted on 04/12/2019 7:35:11 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: alexander_busek
Gilgamesh II: Electric Bugaloo!

I'm getting sick of these endless sequels! Can't Hollywood think of anything new?

Ya know, it's interesting. I can't recall ever hearing about a production of Gilgamesh from hollyweird. The closest is a reference to it in a Star Trek NG episode. It's kind of amazing given the truly epic nature of the story, and how insanely old it is.

35 posted on 04/12/2019 8:40:28 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: ro_dreaming
BC = Backwards Counting
AD = Advancing Dates

For those who object to "Christ" or "the Lord" in the dating.

Enkidu had a torrid affair with a temple prostitute (or maybe it was a porn star) before he ever met Gilgamesh.

36 posted on 04/12/2019 8:58:41 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: zeugma
I can't recall ever hearing about a production of Gilgamesh from hollyweird.

I first learned of it from that classic second-season episode of "Outer Limits" entitled "Demon with a Glass Hand" (1964). The teleplay was by Harlan Ellison.

Opening narration:

"Through all the legends of ancient peoples — Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Semitic — runs the saga of the Eternal Man, the one who never dies, called by various names in various times, but historically known as Gilgamesh, the one who has never tasted death… the hero who strides through the centuries…"

Regards,

37 posted on 04/12/2019 9:00:06 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: dp0622

Is it your coffee table?


38 posted on 04/12/2019 9:01:38 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: sparklite2

Great episode.


39 posted on 04/12/2019 9:03:06 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: SunkenCiv

I”m so glad you did this. Was not sure how to.


40 posted on 04/12/2019 9:46:07 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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