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Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — Wisdom of Ancient Sumer, pls. 49-50. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
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Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: "The Flood Tablet. This is perhaps the most famous of all cuneiform tablets. It is the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic, and describes how the gods sent a floo…