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Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh

Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh

By: E. A. Wallis Budge
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A short monograph devoted to the Babylonian flood myth and the Epic of Gilgamesh (Standard Babylonian version), dating from the 7th century BC, as found on the clay tablets of the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at the ancient site of Nineveh, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The book includes a description of the library and an account of its discovery. The narratives are conveyed through a combination of verbatim translation and paraphrase. The text contains eighteen illustrations. - Summary by KazbekCopyright Anthologies Genre Art Literary History & Criticism Social Sciences World
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