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Visual depiction of Gilgamesh

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Gilgamesh

king-hero seeking immortality


arriving at the edge of the world where Utnapishtim lives, broken and determined, the plant of life before him

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.