Gilgamesh flood myth

Gilgamesh tablet XI
Flood tablet in Akkadian
Material	clay
Size	Length: 15.24 cm (6.00 in) Breadth: 13.33 cm (5.25 in) Depth: 3.17 cm (1.25 in)
Writing	cuneiform
Created	7th century BCE
Period/culture	Neo-Assyrian
Discovered	Kouyunjik
Present location	Room 55, British Museum, London
Identification	K.3375

The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of three Mesopotamian Flood Myths alongside the one including in the Eridu Genesis, and an episode from the Atra-Hasis Epic. Many scholars believe that the flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who used the flood story from the Epic of Atra-Hasis.^[1] A short reference to the flood myth is also present in the much older Sumerian Gilgamesh poems, from which the later Babylonian versions drew much of their inspiration and subject matter.