Preserved images tied to this source.
The Flood Tablet from the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh - Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh, carrying the Babylonian story of the deluge.
Cast reconstruction of a Babylonian Flood Tablet, useful as public visual context for the flood tradition and its later comparisons.
Second cuneiform tablet from the balag to Innin/Ishtar set, useful for comparing goddess liturgy across traditions.
Cuneiform balag to Innin/Ishtar, preserved as a source object for Mesopotamian goddess liturgy and divine-feminine comparisons.
Atra-hasis flood-myth tablet, preserved beside the site's flood-myth comparison material until an Atra-hasis text layer is imported.
Old Babylonian student exercise tablet, preserved as scribal-school context for the cuneiform textual world behind the Mesopotamian corpus.
Epic of Gilgamesh 1
Langdon - English
Translation
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