Enûma Eliš
The tablet (now considered to be a copy of an older Babylonian source) was discovered alongside the seven creation tablets of the "Enûma Eliš" in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh and was by George Smith (1876) originally considered to have been a fragment of the "Tablet VI" detailing the Babylonian creation myth, specifically the creation of man by Marduk (or Merodach, Mirku) and his instructions to mankind. The Assyriologist Friedrich Delitzsch (1896) also considered the tablet to be a fragment of the "Enûma Eliš". The archaeologist Leonard William King however discovered in 1902 that the tablet was not a fragment of the "Enûma Eliš", but a separate tablet source listing a brief creation story, but mostly moral precepts assigned to the Babylonian God Marduk. The tablet was later donated to the British Museum, from which the tablet derived its name.