The Newly Discovered Tablet II of the Epic of Gilgamesh

https://www.ancient.eu ^ | April 9, 2019 | Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SteveH. Hey, isn't it Friday? Seems like a good topic for the weekly Digest ping.

[ElkGroveDan]

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

[dp0622]

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

[sparklite2]

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

[Steve Van Doorn]

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

[vannrox]

This is a good article. very interesting.

[SunkenCiv]

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. :^(

[DickBrannigan]

Picard and Dathon at El Adrel.

[lowbridge]

We're going to need the Professor to decipher this one.

[VanDeKoik]

Sequel is rarely as good as the original

[OSHA]

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

[Sirius Lee]

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

[wintertime]

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.

[ro_dreaming]

BCE = Before Christ Enters
CE = Christian Era

[zeugma]

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.

[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[alexander_busek]

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,

[mad_as_he$$]

Is it your coffee table?

[mad_as_he$$]

Great episode.

[Beowulf9]

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