The Death of Gilgamesh is a Sumerian poem about the death of the legendary hero Gilgamesh, best known in later sources from Epic of Gilgamesh.
The text was reconstructed by Samuel Noah Kramer, who produced a critical edition and translation of the text in 1944.
However, he learns that the god-king Enlil has destined him to a mortal life, though he also has granted him kingship, heroism in battle, and other great qualities.
Thereafter, the text describes Gilgamesh's death, and ends with a lament over his death.
Some historians believe that these four stories used to all belong to one larger Sumerian Gilgamesh cycle, which began with GEN and ended by the Death of Gilgamesh, with the other two texts belonging to an unclear order between the two of them.