History EPIC OF GILGAMESH Pre-Biblical Deluge flood Story museum replica cuneiform tablet Sculpture 6" www.Neo-Mfg.com home decor
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A reproduction from the British Museum
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This object is the single most famous cuneiform text and caused a sensation when its content was first read in the 19th century because of its similarity to the Flood story in the Book of Genesis.
Baked clay tablet inscribed with the Babylonian account of the Flood. It is the 11th Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh and tells how the gods determined to send a flood to destroy the earth, but one of them, Ea, revealed the plan to Utu-napishtim whom he instructed to make a boat in which to save himself and his family.
He orders him to take into it birds and beasts of all kinds. Utu-napishtim obeyed and when all were aboard and the door shut the rains descended and all the rest of mankind perished. After six days the waters abated and the ship grounded. The first bird released "flew to and fro but found no resting-place". A swallow likewise returned but finally a raven which had been sent out did not return showing that the waters were receding.
Utu-napishtim, who later told this story to Gilgamesh, thereupon emerged and sacrificed to the gods who, angry at his escape, granted him on the intercession of Ea divine honours and a dwelling place at the mouth of the river Euphrates.This object was previously moulded by the BM Facsimile Service. It was issued as No. 10 in a previously issued series of postcards captioned "Assyrian monuments bearing on Bible history in the British Museum".
Description: Fragment of a clay tablet, upper right corner, 2 columns of inscription on either side, 49 and 51 lines + 45 and 49 lines. Neo-Assyrian. Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet 11, story of the Flood.
Culture/period: Neo-Assyrian term details
Date: b7thC BC
FindspotExcavated/Findspot: Kouyunjik term details(Asia,Iraq,North Iraq,Kouyunjik (Nineveh))
Materials: clay
Last photo shows the original from the Museum.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=309929&partId=1
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