This character tells a man to examine a wall and notice, “Were its bricks not fired in an oven?” per a translation by Andrew George. According to one reading, this character angers inhabitants of the so-called“sheepfold” through repeated invocations of prima nocta. In a lament, this character declares that he cradled a corpse until a maggot fell out of its nose. This character is the subject (15[2])of the incipits (*) “Surpassing all others” and “He who saw the deep.” A serpent steals an immortality-granting plant that this character had retrieved by tying (10[1])stones to his feet and walking on the bottom of the ocean. This character travels to speak with the flood survivor Utnapishtim out of despair over the death of his friend, the wild man Enkidu. For 10 points, name this king of Uruk, the hero of a Sumerian epic. ■END■