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Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East

Sumerian Mythology: Frontispiece

Ancient MesopotamiaCuneiform WritingSamuel Noah KramerSumerian Mythology

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This tablet (29.16.422 in the Nippur collection of the University Museum) is one of the unpublished pieces belonging to the Sumerian epic poem 1 whose hero Enmerkar ruled in the city of Erech sometime during the fourth millennium B. C. The passage enclosed by the black line describes the blissful and unrivalled state of man in an era of universal peace before he had learned to know fear and before the "confusion of tongues"; its contents, 2 which are very reminiscent of Genesis XI:1, read as…

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