How would you define the Mesopotamian ideal of kingship? What is the basis of the monarch's legitimacy?
Many Kings claimed that they had direct contact with the Gods. When the Gods created Gilgamesh, they gave him a perfect body, he was wise and saw mysteries and knew secret things. The ideal of kinship consisted in the perfect body and wise man to rule the land in this case being Gilgamesh. It was also important to think that they had a direct relationship with the Gods, which made them more powerful in their minds and the ones of the people. The document explains how he was given supremacy over the people but not the gift of immortality, which is what Gilgamesh had been searching for.
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