Reading the tablets…
Reading the tablets…
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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…
Religion & Myth
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay tablet. Counting board; the archaic cuneiform sign "DUG" (vessel) appears. From Uruk, Iraq. End of the 4th millennium BCE. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.