Ancient text
Epic of Gilgamesh
An Akkadian epic preserved on cuneiform tablets. Its eleventh tablet contains a flood account in which a single figure is instructed to build a vessel, survives an inundation, and releases birds to test for dry land.
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Document
Source- Culture
- Mesopotamian
- Language
- Akkadian
- Approximate date
- Standard Babylonian version, second millennium BCE
- Corpus
- ane
- Review status
- in_review
Relationships to biblical passages
Interpretationflood motifSimilarity only
Both narratives feature a warned survivor, a constructed vessel, the preservation of living creatures, and the release of birds to test for receding water. The correspondence is at the level of narrative motif. CodexTrace records the similarity and makes no claim about literary dependence in either direction; establishing dependence would require cited scholarship that has not been curated here.
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