Gilgamesh tattoo

Sumerian / Mesopotamian / Babylonian / Assyrian epic hero king Gilgamesh / Bilgamesh / Izdubar

Gilgamesh Statue from the Pergammonmusem in Berlin

Designed by Jason Rhodes at Intricate Decor in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The top line is the cuneiform symbols for the name Gilgamesh. The bottom line, "ša naqba īmuru išdī māti," is the first line, reconstructed and transliterated in Akkadian, from the Standard Babylonian Version of the EPIC OF GILGAMESH. Translated by Andrew George, it reads "He who saw the Deep, the country's foundation." I'll post a less fresh one later.

Enuma Elish

The Epic of Gilgamesh is among the earliest known works of literature. An epic is a long poem that tells the story of legendary or heroic people or gods. Like most epics, the first stories of Gilgamesh began as oral fables handed down by word of mouth. Hundreds of years after the poets first spoke