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~700 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Gilgamesh Tablet XI.svg

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Between 1845 and 1851 CE, Sir Austen Henry Layard uncovered the cuneiform library of King Assurbanipal in Nineveh. These texts, most of which dated to the 7th century…

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~650 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI (the Flood)

The single most important literary discovery of the 19th century. It rewired the understanding of the Bible's literary context and proved that the Mesopotamian flood tradition is older. It is the oldest surviving epic poetry in human history.

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Gilgamesh Tablet XI.svg

Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI (the Flood)

AuOr 37, 043-044 01

AuOr 37, 044-045 02

AuOr 37, 045-046 03

AuOr 37, 047 04

AuOr 37, 047-049 05

BAM 4, 392

BM 091441

CDLI Literary 002701.01, ex. 023 & 002701.05, ex. 010

CDLI Literary 002701.05, ex. 011

CDLJ 2007/1 §3.49

CDLJ 2007/1 §3.50

CDLJ 2007/1 §3.54

DUROM 2009.9

Fs Lambert 210-211 53 A3

Genava 17, 031, no. 23

LKU 012

MSL SS 1, 033

NABU 2015/105

OECT 11, 077

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