{"collection":"Ancient Near East","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/ane/sum/sum04.htm","path":"ane/sum/sum04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/ane/sum/sum04.htm","text":"| | PLATES | | \n| | Man's Golden Age | Frontispiece | \n| | | FACING PAGE | \n| I. | A Scene from the Nippur Excavations: Rooms of the Temple \"Tablet House\" | 8 | \n| II. | Oldest Literary Catalogue | 14 | \n| III. | Nippur Archaic Cylinder | 18 | \n| IV. | Gudea Cylinder | 19 | \n| V. | \"Chicago\" Syllabary | 22 | \n| VI. | Nippur Grammatical Text | 23 | \n| VII. | Gods and the Nether World | 32 | \n| VIII. | The Separation of Heaven and Earth | 36 | \n| IX. | Enlil Separates Heaven and Earth | 37 | \n| X. | Miscellaneous Mythological Scenes | 40 | \n| XI. | Enlil and Ninlil: the Begetting of Nanna | 44 | \n| XII. | Gods of Vegetation | 50 | \n| XIII. | Enki and Ninhursag: the Affairs of the Water-god | 56 | \n| XIV. | Enki, the Water-god | 60 | \n| XV and XVI. | Inanna and Enki: the Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Erech | 64 and 65 | \n| XVII and XVIII. | The Creation of Man | 70 and 71 | \n| XIX. | Gods and Dragons | 78 | \n| 20. | Inanna's Descent to the Nether World | 85 | \n| | TEXT FIGURES | | \n| | | PAGE | \n| 1. | The Origin and Development of the Sumerian System of Writing | 17 | \n| 2. | The Deluge | 99 | \n| | MAP | | \n| 1. | Sumer in the First Half of the Third Millennium B.C. | 7 |","title":"Sumerian Mythology: List of Illustrations","type":"page"}