ID: 901001922 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001922	Record Type: Character/Person

	Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian character)

Note: Best known of all ancient Mesopotamian heroes, known from numerous tales in the Akkadian language.The Gilgamesh of the poems and of the epic tablets was probably meant to be the presumed historical Gilgamesh who ruled at Uruk in southern Mesopotamia sometime during the first half of the 3rd millennium BCE. There is, however, no historical evidence for the exploits narrated in poems and epic.

Display Date: 3rd millennium BCE

Names:

	Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian character) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Ancient Near-Middle Eastern iconography> (P)
		........<Ancient Near-Middle Eastern characters> (P)
		............Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian character) (I)

Related Iconography:

	actor is .... Epic of Gilgamesh
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Ancient Near-Middle Eastern iconography, Ancient Near-Middle Eastern narratives, Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian narratives)) [901001921]

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... legendary character
	.....(characters (people by activity), people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... hero
	.....(people by state or condition, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Mesopotamian (culture or style)
	.....(Near Eastern (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	identified as .... Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian king, 3rd millenium BCE)
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:

	Gilgamesh (Mesopotamian character)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) nb2014011789

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Gilgamesh," accessed 3 July 2017