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Surroundings:

Sennacherib's AnnalsSennacherib's Annals - Jerusalem PrismGilgamesh tablet XI - Flood Tablet   K.3375Broken Obelisk - Niniveh (Ninuva)Sennacherib Inscription; Baltimore 41.109Sennacherib Inscription; Baltimore 41.109Niniveh, Palace of Sennacherib, Relief of a Phoenician shipWalls of NinevehDair Mar EliaSaint Elijah's MonasterySaint Elijah's Monastery

Location:

  • Iraq, Mosul
  • geo:36.361076,43.152416
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Find
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=44266

Annotations

Enûma Eliš was discovered in  Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at Niniveh by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 in pieces, and published by George Smith in 1876. The title Enuma Elish, meaning "when on high", is the incipit.

See:

  1. George Smith, "The Chaldean Account of Genesis", New York : Scribner, Armstrong 1876, pp. 19-36, 61-100

Nearby

Niniveh, Küyünjik, Palace of Assurbanipal (with library)

Niniveh, Küyünjik, Palace of Assurbanipal (with library)

Niniveh, Esarhaddon's Treaty

Library of Ashurbanipal

Niniveh, Küyünjik, temple of Nabu

Niniveh, Küyünjik, temple of Nabu


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