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Man's Golden Age | |
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FACING PAGE |
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I. |
A Scene from the Nippur Excavations: Rooms of the Temple "Tablet House" | |
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II. |
Oldest Literary Catalogue | |
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III. |
Nippur Archaic Cylinder | |
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Gudea Cylinder | |
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V. |
"Chicago" Syllabary | |
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VI. |
Nippur Grammatical Text | |
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VII. |
Gods and the Nether World | |
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VIII. |
The Separation of Heaven and Earth | |
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IX. |
Enlil Separates Heaven and Earth | |
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X. |
Miscellaneous Mythological Scenes | |
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XI. |
Enlil and Ninlil: the Begetting of Nanna | |
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XII. |
Gods of Vegetation | |
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XIII. |
Enki and Ninhursag: the Affairs of the Water-god | |
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XIV. |
Enki, the Water-god | |
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XV and XVI. |
Inanna and Enki: the Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Erech | |
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XVII and XVIII. |
The Creation of Man | |
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XIX. |
Gods and Dragons | |
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20. |
Inanna's Descent to the Nether World | |
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TEXT FIGURES |
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The Origin and Development of the Sumerian System of Writing | |
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2. |
The Deluge | |
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MAP |
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Sumer in the First Half of the Third Millennium B.C. |