tablet - British Museum
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.
tablet - British Museum
Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian clay tablet: inscribed with 26 + 21 lines of bilingual (Sumerian and Akkadian) incantations against the evil 'asakku' demon, which together with many other malevolent forces has attacked the sufferer in the head. The tablet is F
tablet - British Museum
Celestial planisphere; in this stylised map the sky has been divided into eight sections. It represents the night sky of 3-4 January 650 BC over Nineveh. The rectangular shape at the top has been identified as the constellation known today as Gemini and the stars contained with an oval shape are the Pleiades.
Babylonian Section - Penn
The Babylonian Section houses a collection of almost 30,000 clay tablets inscribed in Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform, making it one of the ten largest collections in the world.
Tablet - CBS10673 | Collections - Penn Museum
Lower third of tablet with 6 columns of text; 3 on each side. Preserved columns each have 10-15 lines and the compete tablet would probably have had ca. 260 lines. Text, written in Sumerian deals with the creation of humans, prediluvian cities and their rulers, and the flood.
Mesopotamian Tablet Collection - University of Illinois Urbana …
Mesopotamian Tablet Collection. The Museum holds a collection of nearly 1,750 ancient Mesopotamian inscribed clay tablets. They were purchased for the Museum between 1913 and 1915 from scholar/antiquities dealer Edgar J. Banks with the support of University President Edmund James.
Kish Tablet is the Oldest Written Text Dating Back to c. 3500 BCE
2024年11月30日 · The Kish Tablet is an astounding reminder of how writing has advanced across time, and provides essential insights into Sumerian culture. The original tablet is currently held at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, while a plaster cast can be found at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.
Babylonian Collection | Yale Peabody Museum
The world’s oldest cookbooks, an early account of the heroic king Gilgamesh, the earliest prose descriptions of the constellations, and writings of the first named author in human history (the princess Enheduanna) are among the Babylonian Collection’s more …
Sumerian Literary Tablets and Fragments in the Archaeological Museum …
Sumerian Literary Tablets and Fragments in the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul - II (ISET II) is a 1976 book by Samuel Noah Kramer and includes sketches of clay cuneiform tablets with Sumerian inscriptions. Through 129 plates, 289 artifacts and …
Inside he Archives: Ancient Sumerian tablet at Penn Museum is …
2023年10月5日 · The Penn Museum in Philadelphia has 5,000-year-old Sumerian tablet in its collection that is one of the earliest examples of writing and a key to understanding Mesopotamia. Experts believe...