This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

We are fortunate in that both the Gilgamesh Epic and Sumerian King List mention Gilgamesh ... They also both name his father (Lugulbanda) at the same time period/cycle of kingship lending ...