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Urshanabi appears again on tablet XI, after Gilgamesh fails to fulfill Utnapishtim’s request to remain awake for a week. [31] Utnapishtim curses him, presumably because he brought Gilgamesh to his home, and relieves him of his duties, possibly so that no mortal can reach the shore of his domain ever again. [32]
After Gilgamesh fails, Utnapishtim curses Urshanabi, most likely for bringing the hero to him, and declares he can no longer fulfill his function. [21] He subsequently joins Gilgamesh on his way back to Uruk, and the final lines of the epic, Gilgamesh's speech describing the walls of Uruk and an invitation to climb them, are directed to him. [ 83 ]
Cuneiform tablet with the Atra-Hasis epic in the British Museum. Uta-napishtim or Utnapishtim (Akkadian: đ’Ś“đ’ŤŁ, "he has found life") was a legendary king of the ancient city of Shuruppak in southern Iraq, who, according to the Gilgamesh flood myth, one of several similar narratives, survived the Flood by making and occupying a boat.
After instructing Urshanabi, the ferryman, to wash Gilgamesh and clothe him in royal robes, they depart for Uruk. As they are leaving, Utnapishtim's wife asks her husband to offer a parting gift. Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh that at the bottom of the sea there lives a boxthorn-like plant that will make him young again. Gilgamesh, by binding ...
Enlil then boards a boat and grasping Utnapishtim's hand, helps him and his wife aboard where they kneel. Standing between Utnapishtim and his wife, he touches their foreheads and blesses them. "Formerly Utnapishtim was a human being, but now he and his wife have become gods like us. Let Utnapishtim reside far away, at the mouth of the rivers."
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