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One is inclined to assume the latter, for the inhabitants of Uruk are represented as complaining that Gilgamesh has taken away the sons and daughters of the place. From a passage in a subsequent tablet it appears that Uruk is not the native place of the hero, but Marada.
That the fragment under consideration belongs to the beginning of the epic is tolerably certain, though not absolutely so. Sixth tablet, l. 192. He brings offerings to Lugal-Marada, i.e., the king of Marada a solar deity. See p. 486. See above, p. 448. Anu here used in the generic sense of 'lofty, 'divine. The phrase is equivalent to the Biblical 'image of God.
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