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THE SEVEN TABLETS OF

CREATION, OR T H E BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LEGENDS

CONCERNING T H E CREATION O F T H E WORLD AND OF MANKIND.

EDITED BY

L. W. KING, M.A., F.S.A., ASSISTANT IN 'IllE DEPARTMENT O F EGYPTIAN A N D ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES, BRITISH MUSEUM.

VOL. 11. SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS.

eJ cQonbon : L U Z A C A N D CO. 1902.

HERTFOR D PRINTED BY STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS,

I N this volume is published for the first time the texts from a group of tablets, inscribed in the NeoBabylonian character, and containing new portions of the great series of Creation Legends, to which the Assyrians and Babylonians gave the title Enulna edish. T h e group includes :-I. Portions of four copies of the First Tablet of the series, together with two extracts from the text, inscribed upon rough " practice-tablets " by the pupils of Babylonian scribes; 2 . Portions of two copies of the Second Tablet of the series ; 3. Part of a copy of the Third Tablet, and fragments of three " practice-tablets " inscribed wit? portions of the text, ther sinilar fragments already which I havk joined Tf?XL-ts ,??O?% ~!?aby~Qnia% published in Cvazs TabZets, etc., ia th ~ L L I U ~ s ~ u mPart , XI I I (1901) ; 4. Part of a copy of the Sixth Tablet, which is of peculiar interest inasmuch as it refers to the Creation of Man, and settles the disputed question as to the number of Tablets, or sections, of the Creation Series was composed ; and 5. P&, 3ns of two copies of the Seventh Tablet of the series,

XI1

PREFACE.

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A “practice-tablet,” which is inscribed in the Sunierian and Babylonian languages with texts relating to the Creation of the Moon and of the Sun, is also included. T h e Appendices contain texts which, for the most part, are closely connected with the interpretation of the Creation Legends. They include :-I. A number of Assyrian commentaries on the Seventh Tablet of the Creation Series, together with fragments of texts which are similar in character to that composition ; 2 . A NeoBabylonian duplicate of the tablet which has been supposed to belong to the Creation Series and to contain the instructions given to man after his creation, but which is now shown by the new duplicate to be part of a tablet of moral precepts and to have no connection whatsoever with the Creation Series ; 3. Part of a large astrological text of the period of the Arsacidae, in which some of the chief personages of the Creation-story ~ p p e a in ’ astrological characters, is Interxeted on astrological t cf the Icgetd which was at one ~ r ~ i i e ~ u s 1believed y, to contain an Assryian version of the story of the Tower of Babel. T h e last appendix contains a “Prayer of the Raising of the Hand to Ishtar,” which belongs to the series of similar compositions already published in my BabyZonian Magic and Sorce9.y (1896) ; both from the beauty of its language and from its perfect

PREFACE.

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state of preservation, it must be regarded as one of the finest and most complete Babylonian religious texts which have hitherto been recovered. After the plates in this volume had been printed off, and whilst I was engaged in making a hand-list of the smaller fragments in the Kuyunjik Collections, I identified ten additional fragments of the Creation Series, belonging to copies of the First, Second, Fifth, and Seventh Tablets of the composition. T h e texts of these fragments, as well as those of some other closely allied Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian tablets, are published by means of outline blocks in the first volume of this work.

L. W. KING. L ONDON, July 29th, 1902.

Content6,

PREFACE

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CREATION SERIES, TABLET I

. .

. . . .

. . . . CKEATION SERIES, TABLET 111 . . . . . . . . CREATION SERIES, TABLET VI . . CKEATION SERIES, TABLET VI1 . . . . . . . . A TEXT RELATING TO CREATION . . . . APPENDIX I . . . . . . . . APPENDIX I1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I1

I

.

. . . . . . . . . . APPENDIX IV . . . . . . . . . . . APPENDIX V . . . . . . . . . . . INDEX TO PLATES . . . . . . . . . APPENDIX 111.

PLATE : T H E

THIRD

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TABLET

OF

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I

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xxv

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xxxv

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XXXVIII

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XIV

XLIX LI LXIV LXVII LXXIII LXXV LXXXV

CREATION

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Frontispiece

CREATION SERIES, TABLET 1.

45528

+ 46614.

OBVERSE.

5

IO

15

,

PLATE I.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET 1.

45528

+ 46614.

OBVERSE (Cont.).

20

25

30

PLATE

11.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET 1.

45588

+ 46614.

OBVERSE (Cont.).

PLATE

111.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I

45628

+ 46614.

REVERSE.

PLATE IV.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET 1.

45538

+ 46614.

REVERSE (Cont.).

\

PLATE V.

z

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CREATION SERIES, TABLET I .

35134,

15

20

40

The text is an extract from a practice-tablet,

PLATE VII.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I.

PLATE Vlll.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I .

48883. OBVERSE.

Broken Surface.

PLATE

IX

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I.

46883. OBVERSE ( ~ ~ f l t& . )REVERSE .

PLATE

X

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I .

48803. REVERSE (cont.).

PLATE XI.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I.

82-9-18, 8879. REVERSE.

The Obverse of the fragment is missing.

PLATE XII.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET 1.

82-9-18, 6879. REVERSE (cont.).

PLATE XIII.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET 11.

48559. OBVERSE.

PLATE

XIV.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I t .

PLATE XV.

40559. OBVERSE

5

(cont.). 0

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CREATION SERIES, TABLET I I .

40559. OBVERSE (cont.).

PLATE XVI.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET .II.

40559. OBVERSE (cant-).

PLATE XVll

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I[

40559. REVERSE.

PLATE XVIII.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET 11.

40559. REVERSE (cont.).

PLATE

XIX.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET II

40559. REVERSE (cont.).

PLATE

XX

CREATION SERIES, TABLET II.

40559. REVERSE (cont.).

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PLATE XXI.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET iI

92632

+- 93048.

OBVERSE.

PLATE

XXII.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I I .

92632 + 93048.

PLATE XXlll

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I I

99632

+ 93048.

REVERSE (cont.).

PLATE XXlV.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET 111.

82-9-18,1403

+ 6316.

0BVERSE.

PLATE

XXV.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET Ill.

83-9-18,1403 *f OBVERSE (Cont.).

63316.

PLATE XXVI.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET 111.

I I

I

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PLATE XXVII.

CREATION

SERIES, TABLET 111.

+

8%-9-18,1403 6316. REVERSE (Cant.).

PLATE XXVIII.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET Ill.

82-9-18, 6950 +

PLATE XXIX.

83-1-18,1868.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET Ill.

43386. OBVERSE.

PLATE Xxx.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET Ill.

42285. OBVERSE (Cont.).

PLATE

XXXi.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET I I I .

48885. REVERSE.

PLATE XXXII,

CREATION SERIES, TABLET 111.

42286. REVERSE (Cont.).

PLATE XXXIII.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET 111.

82-9-18,5448

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83-1-18,2116.

XXXlV

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VI.

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PLATE XXXV.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VI.

92629. OBVERSE (cont.).

PLATE XXXVl

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VII.

91139 -

PLATE XXXVIII.

+ 93073.

0 BV E RSE.

-

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VII.

91139

+ 93073.

OBVERSE (conk).

PLATE XXXlX

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VII.

91139

+ 93073.

PLATE

XL.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VII.

91139

+ 93073.

OBVERSE (Cont.).

PLATE

XLI.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VII.

91139

-+ 93073.

REV ER S E.

PLATE

XLII.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VII.

91139 + 88073. REVERSE

(cont.).

PLATE XLlll

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VII.

91139

+ 93073.

REVERSE (cont.).

PLATE

XLIV.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VII,

.+93073.

91139

PLATE

XLV.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VII.

35506. OBVERSE.

PLATE XLVI.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VII,

35506.. OBVERSE (Cont.).

REVERSE.

PLATE XLVII.

CREATION SERIES, TABLET VII.

35506. REVERSE (Cont.).

PLATE XLVlll

T E X T RELATING T O CREATION.

82-7-14,4005. OBVERSE.

PLATE XLIX.

T E X T RELATING T O CREATION.

82-7-14, 4005. REVERS E.

PLATE

L.

APPENDIX 1.

S.11

+ S.980.

OBVERSE.

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APPENDIX I.

PLATE LII.

APPEND!X 1.

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APPENDIX I.

K. 4406.

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APPENDIX I .

R. 366

+ 80-7-19,293. OBVERSE.

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APPENDIX I

w. 366 + 80-7-f8, 293. REVERSE.

PLATE LVII.

APPENDIX I .

REVERSE (cont.).

PLATE LVlll

APPENDIX

I

M. 2053. OBVERSE.

REVERSE.

PLATE

LIX.

APPENDIX 1.

K. 2053. REVERSE (cont.).

OBVERSE.

PLATE

LX

APPENDIX I .

K. 2107

+ K. 6886.

OBVERSE.

PLATE LXI.

APPENDIX I .

K. 2107

+ K. 6086.

OBVERSE (Cont.).

OBVERSE.

REVERSE.

PLATE LXII.

APPENDIX I

PLATE

LXIII.

APPENDIX II

33851. OBVERSE.

PLATE LXlV

APPENDIX

II.

33851. OBVERSE (Cont.).

PLATE LXV

APPENDIX

33851. REVERSE.

11.

PLATE

LXVI.

APPENDIX

111.

55466+ 55486+ 55627. 0BVE RS E.

PLATE LXVII.

APPENDIX

111.

PLATE LXVlll

55466+ 55486+ 55627.

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APPENDIX Ill.

55466+ 55486+ 55627. OBVERSE. (Cont.).

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LXIX.

APPENDIX I l l .

5 M 6 6 f 554864- 55627. REVERSE.

PLATE L X X .

APPENDIX I l l .

55466+55488+55627.

PLAT€

LXXI.

APPENDIX

111.

55466+55486+55627. REVERSE (Cont.).

PLATE LXXII.

APPENDIX IV.

PLATE: LXXIII.

APPENDIX

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APPENDIX V.

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APPENDIX V.

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26187, OBVERSE (cont.)

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APPENDIX V.

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26187. OBVERSE (cont.).

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APPENDIX V.

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26187. REVERSE (Cont.).

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APPENDIX V

26187. REVERSE (Conk.).

PLATE LXXXIV

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