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akkadian
a member of an ancient Semitic people who lived in central Mesopotamia in the third millennium bc -
gilgamesh
a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics. -
uruk
an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq, near the Euphrates, important before 2000 b.c.: exclusive archaeological excavations, notably of a ziggurat and of tablets with very early Sumerian script. -
anunnaki
various unnamed Sumerian deities who constituted the divine assembly presided over by An and Enlil and of whom seven were judges in the afterworld. -
aruru
the Akkadian goddess personifying earth, who assisted Marduk in the creation of human beings: the counterpart of the Sumerian Ki. -
chiton
(in ancient Greece and Rome) a loose woollen tunic worn knee length by men and full length by women