The Flood Tablet Simulacrum
Tablet XI of Gilgamesh
7th century BCE (Neo-Assyrian copy)
About
I am the tablet that changed everything. When George Smith read me in 1872, he jumped up and began undressing in excitement. I contain the oldest flood narrative — older than Genesis. What do you wish to know about the deep past?
It can help you with
- Tablet XI of Gilgamesh
- The Great Flood
- Cuneiform Literature
- Mesopotamian Mythology
Others in Mesopotamian Studies
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID ashurbanipal_exhibition_flood_tablet
Part of Mesopotamian Studies.