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Akkadian literature
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Akkadian literature is the ancient literature written in the East Semitic Akkadian language in Mesopotamia during the period spanning the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age.
Cardiff Castle (Wales). Castle apartments: Library (1870s) - Allegory of Assyrian literature (relief by Thomas Nicholls).
Cardiff Castle (Wales). Castle apartments: Library (1870s) - Allegory of Assyrian literature (relief by Thomas Nicholls).
Atra-Hasis
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Atra-Hasis is an 18th-century BC Akkadian epic, recorded in various versions on clay tablets and named for one of its protagonists, the priest Atra-Hasis. The narrative has its origins in Sumerian his
Akkadian literature
…Wind • Advice to a Prince • Agushaya Hymn • Alamdimmû • Aluzinnu text • Ardat-lili • Asakkū marṣūtu • Ašipus' Almanac (or Handbook) • At the cleaners • Atra-ḫasīs • Autobiography of Adad-guppī • Autobiography of Kurigalzu • Autobiography of Marduk • Babylonian Almanac • Babylonian King List • Babylonian Theodicy…
One of the damaged tablets that preserve the epic in cuneiform script, exhibited here in the British Museum. The reconstruction of the narrative was c
One of the damaged tablets that preserve the epic in cuneiform script, exhibited here in the British Museum. The reconstruction of the narrative was carried out by comparing of documents, which contain the same epic - at the very least parts influenced by it - in more or less varied forms.