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Flutes are also mentioned in a recently translated tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem whose development spanned the period of approximately 2100-600 BCE.

Additionally, a set of cuneiform tablets knows as the " musical texts " provide precise tuning instructions for seven scale of a stringed instrument ( assumed to be a Babylonian lyre ).

One of those scales is named embūbum, which is an Akkadian word for " flute ".