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Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East

The Chaldean Account of the Deluge: The Chaldean Account ...

AssyriologyBabylonian Flood MythBritish Museum TabletsGilgamesh Flood Tablet

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A short time back I discovered among the Assyrian tablets in the British Museum, an account of the flood; which, under the advice of our President, I now bring before the Society. For convenience of working, I had divided the collection of Assyrian tablets in the British Museum into sections, according to the subject matter of the inscriptions. I have recently been examining the division comprising the Mythological and Mythical tablets, and from this section I obtained a number of tablets…