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There are five extant Gilgamesh poems in Sumerian.

These probably circulated independently, rather than being in the form of a unified epic.

Some of the names of the main characters in these poems differ slightly from later Akkadian names, and that there are some differences in the underlying stories ( e. g. in the Sumerian version Enkidu is Gilgamesh's servant ):