1) Ancient priestess 
Shamhat (or Šamhat, also called Shamkat in the old Babylonian version of Gilgamesh`.) is the name of a female character who appears in Tablets I/and II of the Epic of Gilgamesh-(and later in Tablet VII).` Shamhat plays the integral role in Tablet I, of taming the wild man Enkidu, who was created by the gods as the rival to the mighty Gilgamesh......