Siduri's advice was recorded in the Old Babylonian version of Tablet X referred to as the Meissner fragment.

There is also a shorter Jerusalem (or Palestinian) Talmud, compiled in the fifth century, but the Babylonian version is regarded as the authoritative work.

Shamhat (or Šamhat, also called Shamkat in the old Babylonian version of Gilgamesh".)

("Bavli") By convention, a reference to the "Gemara" or "Talmud," without further qualification, refers to the Babylonian version.

The speech of Sidhuri in an old Babylonian version of the epic is so similar to Ecclesiastes 9:7-10 that direct influence is a genuine possibility.

We shall see that it presents a variant and more primitive picture of that great catastrophe than those of the Babylonian and Hebrew versions.

How then are we to explain this striking literary resemblance to the structure of the narrative in Genesis, a resemblance that is completely wanting in the Babylonian versions?

The opening of the Old Babylonian version recalls that of Gilgamesh:

The Old Babylonian version comes from Susa and Tell Harmal.

The Babylonian version contains the opinions of more generations because of its later date of completion.