CUNEIFORM TEXTS FROM BABYLONIAN TABLETS, &c., IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. PART XIII. (50 Plates.) PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. SOLD AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM; AND AT LONGMANS & Co., 39, PATERNOSTER ROW; BERNARD QUARITCH, i5, PICCADILLY; ASHER & Co., 13, BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN; KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & Co., PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAI) AND HENRY FROWDE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, AMEN CORNER, LONDON. I90 . [ALL RIGHTS RESER VED.]
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HENRY FROWDE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, AMEN CORNER,
LONDON.
I90 .
[ALL RIGHTS RESER VED.]
LONDON:
HARRISON AND SONS,
PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER LATE MAJESTY,
ST. MARTIN'S LANE.
Part XIII. of" Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c.," contains textsfrom fifty-three baked clay tablets and fragments of the Kouyunjik and othercollections. The texts are mythological legends and may be divided into thefollowing classes:-
(i.) Texts belonging to the Creation series styled by the Assyrians " ENUMA
ELISH," "When in the height," from the ,two opening words of the firsttablet of the series. The poem describes the birth of the gods, the battleof the god Marduk with the monster Tiamat, and the creation of the worldby Marduk.
(2.) Miscellaneous Legends of the Creation. Under this heading are given asecond version of the battle with the Dragon, the text of a tablet referringto the creation of beasts, and a completely different version of the narrativeof the creation, in which no contest with a dragon is mentioned.
(3.) Legends of early Babylonian kings. The legends form a distinct class andinclude texts relating to Sargon, king of Agade, about B.c. 3800, and hisson Naram-Sin, about B.c. 3750; Dungi, king of Ur, about B.c. 2500;Libit-Ishtar, king of Isin, about B.c. 2300; Khammurabi, king of Babylon,about B.c. 2200; and Nebuchadnezzar I., king of Babylon, about B.C.I I20.
In the following Plates an attempt has been made to place in the hands ofstudents the whole of the Babylonian and Assyrian material preserved in the BritishMuseum relating to two important groups of legends concerning the creation of theworld and the mythical origins and deeds of some of the earliest and most famouskings of Mesopotamia. The true character of the texts inscribed upon the larger andmore clearly written Assyrian fragments containing the principal legend of theCreation was recognized by the late General Sir H. C. Rawlinson, Bart., G.C.B., asfar back as 1865, but it was not till some ten years later that the late Mr. GeorgeSmith published translations of a selection of them with brief remarks, in which hepointed out the resemblance between certain portions of the legend and passages inthe early chapters of the Book of Genesis (see Chaldean Genesis, London, I876;and Transaclions of the Society of Biblical Archeology, Vol. IV., I876). Sincethat time the fragments published by Mr. George Smith have been frequentlyexamined and commented on by Assyriologists, and several renderings of them haveappeared in English, French and German; but no collected edition of the cuneiformtexts has hitherto been made. In the present work will be found copies of arelatively large number of Creation fragments, the texts of which have remainedunpublished; among those of special interest is No 38,396 (see Plate 4), whichsupplies a large portion of the missing text of the Second Creation Tablet. An
important unnumbered fragment of a duplicate text of the last tablet of the Creation
Series, which was used by Mr. George Smith in the preparation of his published
copy referred to above, was after his death lost sight of for about twenty-five years;
during the re-examination of the collections, however, in the year I900, it was
identified, and it now bears the number K. 9267 (see Plate 28).
The legends of early Babylonian kings given on Plates 44-50 are here
published for the first time.
The copies have been made by Mr. L. W. King, M.A., Assistant in the
Department.
E. A. WALLIS BUDGE.
DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES,
BRITISH MUSEUM.
MAY ITTH, I901.
CONTENTS.
Plates.I. The Series of Tablets called by the Assyrians "ENUMA ELISH," describing the
Creation of the World:-
I. Tablet I. [K. 5419C, No. 93,015 (82-7-I4, 402), 81-7-27, 80, and K. 3938].
The first Tablet describes the time when the heavens and the earth were
not, and when the primeval water-gods, Apsu and Tiamat, alone existed;
subsequently the great gods were created, and Apsu and Tiamat revolted
against them. The Tablet ends with an account of the monsters which
Tiamat created to help her in the fight with the gods ... ... ... ... I-3
2. Tablet II. [No. 38,396, K. 4832, 79-7-8, I78, and K. 292].
The second Tablet records how Anshar sent Anu to appease Tiamat, but
he met with no success. Whereupon Anshar appealed to his son Marduk to
fight Tiamat on behalf of the gods and to slay her. Marduk consented to do
so, and requested that the gods should be summoned to ratify his appointment
as their champion .............. ... ... 4-6
3. Tablet III. [K. 3473 + 79-7-8, 296 - R. 615, K. 6650, No. 93,0I7 (88-4-19, I3),
K. 8575, K. 8,524, 83-1-18, 2116, 83-I-I8, 1868, and 82-9-18, I403].
The third Tablet tells how Anshar sent Gaga his minister to summon
Lakhmu and Lakhamu and the other gods to an assembly. The gods met in
Upshukkinaku, their council chamber, where they feasted at a banquet inhonour of Marduk .... .. ... ... ... .. . .. ...... 7- I 3
4. Tablet IV. [No. 93,016 (82-9-I8, 3737), K. 3437 + R. 641, R. 2, 83, No. 93,051,
79-7-8, 251, K. 5420c].
The fourth Tablet contains an account of the election of Marduk to be
the champion of the gods, who conferred supreme power upon him ; Marduk
tested the magical powers which had been given to him by making a
garment to disappear and reappear. He then armed himself for the fight andset out in his chariot, accompanied by the winds which he had created. Heslew Tiamat and routed her followers, and after the battle he cut her body inhalves, with one of which he covered the heavens .... ... ... . 4-2
Tablet V.-[K. 3567 K 588, K. 8526, and K. 3449a].
The fifth Tablet records the creation of the stars by Marduk, the
stablishing of the year, and the appointment of the Moon to determine the
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No. 93,016 [82-9-18, 3737].OBVERSE.
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