Endgame in Ancient Iraq

The writing on the wall Hamm speaks of, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsen, happened originally in ancient Iraq, Mesopotomia, and the Muse made Beckett's imagination travel to southern Iraq, to write a play, teasing and spiting both God and man, about the end of creation in the location which witnessed the beginning of civilisation, and, alas, memory is not serving about the Beckett scholar who wrote in the 1960s that as much as the old Iraqi poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh is about creation, Beckett's Endgame is about anti-creation. Belshazzar of the Mene Mene incident was an ancient Iraqi ermperor. Hammurabi was another ancient Iraqi emperor. It is no co-incidence that Beckett's "Endgame" main character is called Hamm, derived from Hamm[urabi]. John Sheedy in an article titled "The Comic Apocalypse of King Hamm", published in "Modern Drama" in mid-1960s, tries to point out that Beckett's Hamm is an ancient (Iraqi?) emperor who had seen better days and now his empire has crumbled