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San Antonio Light in San Antonio, Texas

24 Aug 1913

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San Antonio Light

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San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 24, 1913

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19

New Babylonian Deluge Tablet Rewrites Creation Tale

A clay tablet from Nippur, unearthed years ago and translated by Dr. Arno Poebel, presents a female creator Ninta and a Noah figure named Zingidda. The epic offers a new chronology, seven predeluvian cities, and parallels Genesis Genesis style, with Enki guiding salvation and a survivor’s island fate.

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University of Pennsylvania Nippur Babylonia Museem Arno Poebel Abraham Zingidda Noah Hammurabi George Smith Smith Assurbanipal Ninta Enki Heaven Nintu Persian Gulf Nineveh Constantinople Poebel Museum Hilprecht
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Old Babylonian Tablet Describing Creation and Deluge

The author situates a tablet as possibly written in Hammurabi’s era about 2117 to 2075 BCE, suggesting it is among the oldest Babylonian records. The clay color and script link it to a kings list tablet, with three tablets of similar size likely forming a concise world history. The first tablet may contain the Babylonian theogony and the struggle of the younger gods with chaos, leading to creation.

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Ninta Anu Enlil Heaven Earth Genessis God of Hummidad Badnigar Larak Pabilhareg Shippar Shama Shurrupak Nintu Ishtar Enki Ulysses Enkil Zingidda Sharappak Babylon Hammurabi Babylonia Hilprecht Gilgamesh Dumuzi Etana Isin Berosus Lonia Chaos Ocean Lakhmu Lakhamu Anshar Kishar Nippur Ashurbanipal George Smith Nineveh Jerusalem Abraham Palestine Noah Mmarabi
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Tablet reveals oldest Babylonian deluge and kings list

A tablet history traces the deluge era then lists Babylonian kings from the deluge to later dynasties. New fragments enlarge the royal sequence with reign lengths and brief notes, aligning Babylonian chronology with Greek tradition and shedding light on creation myths and Noah variant parallels.

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