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The Gilgamesh statue at The University of Sydney was made by Lewis Batros and donated by the Gilgamesh Cultural Centre on behalf of the Assyrian community celebrating the university's sesquicentenary in 2000.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature.The first half of the story relates a friendship between Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu. Enkidu is a wild man created by the gods as Gilgamesh's peer to distract him from oppressing the people of Uruk. Together, they journey to the Cedar Mountain to defeat Humbaba, its monstrous guardian. Later they kill the Bull of Heaven, which the goddess Ishtar sends to punish Gilgamesh for spurning her advances. As a punishment for these actions, the gods sentence Enkidu to death.

In the second half of the epic, Gilgamesh's distress at Enkidu's death causes him to undertake a long and perilous journey to discover the secret of eternal life. He eventually learns that "Life, which you look for, you will never find. For when the gods created man, they let death be his share, and life withheld in their own hands". However, because of his great building projects, his account of Siduri's advice, and what the immortal man Utnapishtim told him about the great flood, Gilgamesh's fame survived his death. His story has been translated into many languages, and in recent years has featured in works of popular fiction.So in the course of his quest, he finds compassion, friendship, courage, love and peace.

The statue of Gilgamesh is located between the old Teachers college and the Women’s sports center. It is a warrior with long beard and holds on a lion. The journey, the hero, the triumph, the defeat all showed in the statue. The reason why the statue Gilgamesh in Sydney University is the spirit of Gilgamesh should be spread to all students that we must have compassion, friendship, courage, love and peace. It encourage us to face problems when we meet which is appropriate for all university students.