Gilgamesh Vessel

"The photo shows the "Gilgamesh Vessel". Actually more a krater or ancient Greece."

- Dr. Daniel Jackson

The Gilgamesh Vessel was a krater that contained writing in the Ancient language, although the dialect was odd. The writings told of a treasure trove created by the gods. The vessel also contained a gate address to the island of treasure and depicted a figure that might represent Gilgamesh.

The Vessel had been destroyed during the looting of the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities that occurred in the early days of the Iraq war. The shards that remain appear Babylonian or Sumerian.