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Man's Golden Age |
Frontispiece |
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FACING PAGE |
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I. |
A Scene from the Nippur Excavations: Rooms of the Temple "Tablet House" |
8 |
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II. |
Oldest Literary Catalogue |
14 |
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III. |
Nippur Archaic Cylinder |
18 |
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IV. |
Gudea Cylinder |
19 |
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V. |
"Chicago" Syllabary |
22 |
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VI. |
Nippur Grammatical Text |
23 |
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VII. |
Gods and the Nether World |
32 |
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VIII. |
The Separation of Heaven and Earth |
36 |
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IX. |
Enlil Separates Heaven and Earth |
37 |
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X. |
Miscellaneous Mythological Scenes |
40 |
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XI. |
Enlil and Ninlil: the Begetting of Nanna |
44 |
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XII. |
Gods of Vegetation |
50 |
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XIII. |
Enki and Ninhursag: the Affairs of the Water-god |
56 |
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XIV. |
Enki, the Water-god |
60 |
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XV and XVI. |
Inanna and Enki: the Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Erech |
64 and 65 |
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XVII and XVIII. |
The Creation of Man |
70 and 71 |
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XIX. |
Gods and Dragons |
78 |
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20. |
Inanna's Descent to the Nether World |
85 |
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TEXT FIGURES |
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1. |
The Origin and Development of the Sumerian System of Writing |
17 |
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2. |
The Deluge |
99 |
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MAP |
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1. |
Sumer in the First Half of the Third Millennium B.C. |
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