entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ISR_NOAH,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,scholarly attestation,George (2003) Tablet XI: the Utnapishtim flood narrative; structural and verbal parallels with Genesis 6-9 documented throughout; the flood story Noah receives is traceable to these Babylonian antecedents
ENT_MES_BELET_SERI,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,direct attestation,"Gilgamesh / the Descent of Ishtar: Belet-seri, the scribe who keeps the register of the dead."
ENT_MES_ENKIDU,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,direct attestation,"Epic of Gilgamesh Tablets I-VIII: Enkidu's creation, civilization, friendship with Gilgamesh, death"
ENT_MES_GILGAMESH,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,direct attestation,Andrew George (2003): the definitive edition; all tablets of the Standard Babylonian Epic and Sumerian precursor poems
ENT_MES_GIRTABLULLU,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,direct attestation,Gilgamesh IX: the scorpion-men (girtablullu) who guard the gate of Mount Mashu.
ENT_MES_GUGALANNA,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,direct attestation,"Gilgamesh VI; the Descent of Inanna: the Bull of Heaven, Ereshkigal's husband."
ENT_MES_HUMBABA,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,direct attestation,"Gilgamesh II-V: Humbaba (Huwawa), guardian of the Cedar Forest, slain by Gilgamesh and Enkidu."
ENT_MES_NINSUN,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,direct attestation,"Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet I-III: Ninsun as Gilgamesh's mother, dream interpreter, adopts Enkidu"
ENT_MES_UTNAPISHTIM,SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH,direct attestation,Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI: the flood narrative; Utnapishtim's immortality; the plant of life