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Who is the Babylonian priest-ecorcist identified by Mesopotamian tradition as the author who assembled oral versions of Gilgamesh into a connected narrative?

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Sin-leqi- unninni

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Sin-leqi- unninni was a priest from Mesopotamia in the period from 1300 BC to 1000 BC. He is recognised as the author who collected oral versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

His version of writing the epic of Gilgamesh is called incipit. Gilgamesh is about a king who ruled over the Uruk about 2700 B.C.

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