"Unable to stand up, unable to sit down, he laments. Unable to eat, unable to drink, he laments. Held fast by the door-bolt of Namtar, he is unable to rise."
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About Gilgamesh, The death of Gilgamesh by anonymous, version from Me-Turan, .
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