He is considered a great king of Ur and went so far as to say his parents were also Lugalbanda and Ninsun, which made Gilgamesh his brother and would have elevated the status of his reign.
Now we're back with the Mesopotamians who made the standard of Ur, and we're looking at one of the earliest examples of writing from there, in what is now southern Iraq.
By about 5,000 years ago, cities with tens of thousands of inhabitants, such as Ur and Uruk, were producing art that reflected the self-image of the powerful.