Old Babylonian tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh

c. 1900–1600 BC · Babylon

Old Babylonian tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, from Babylonia, dated c. 1900–1600 BC. It was found at Nippur. Today it is kept at the Penn Museum, Philadelphia.

Date

c. 1900–1600 BC

Civilization

Babylon

Found at

Nippur

Where it is today

Penn Museum, Philadelphia

Related pieces

• 
  c. 1900–1600 BC

  Fragment of the Sumerian King List

• 
  c. 1900–1600 BC

  Hymn ‘Shulgi B’

• 
  17th century BC

  Sumerian Flood Story (Eridu Genesis)

• 
  c. 1900–1600 BC

  Bed model

• 
  c. 1146–1123 BC

  Kudurru of Nebuchadnezzar I

• 
  c. 1600–1401 BC

  Cuneiform tablet: Sumerian dedicatory(?) inscription from Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil

All museum pieces