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The Deluge Story

[1966 B.C.]
clay ;
MLC 1889
Description

1 tablet : clay ; 114 x 90 mm.

Notes

Second chapter of the Epic of Atra-hasis; earliest known copy of an Akkadian version of the Deluge story.
Copied from a still earlier inscription by a junior scribe named Azag-Aya, on the 28th day of Shebet, in the 11th year of Ammi-zaduga.

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