The semidivine king of Erech, a city of southern Babylonia, and hero of an epic collection of mythic tales, one of which tells of a flood that covered the earth.
Carved from Alexander the Great's empire, the Seleucid domain stretched from Thrace to the border of India and included Babylonia, Syria, and Anatolia.
Soon, I was in the captives lines but then, I was taken out and I was done no harm by the guards of Babylon and I was left to live with Gedaliah the Governor of Judah!