Chaldean Deluge Tablet, reconstruction cast
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1893
name: label: Donor Name
content: Johns Hopkins University
label: Site Name
content: Kouyunjik (Nineveh)
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Chaldean Deluge Tablet According to Prof. [Paul] Haupt. Contained in case. Made of clay. Ill. S.I. Ann. Rep., 1922, Casanowicz, pl. 27. #73170 is also deluge tablet, orig. in Brit. Mus."
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content: A 19th century reconstruction of a Neo-Assyrian "Flood Tablet" from Mesopotamia, inscribed in cunieform with the Babylonian-Assyrian account of the Flood as part of the Epic of Gilgamesh. See pp. ix - xii in "Proceedings of the American Oriental Society, at Its Meeting in Boston and Cambridge, Mass., April 6th, 7th, and 8th, 1893." Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 16, 1896, pp. i-xlviii. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/592492. One of the communications reported at the meeting was: "On a modern reproduction of the eleventh tablet of the Babylonian Nimrod Epic and a new fragment of the Chaldean account of the Deluge; by Professor [Paul] Haupt. The Johns Hopkins Press has now on sale a few plaster casts of a modern reproduction of the Chaldean Flood Tablet, i.e. the eleventh tablet of the so-called Izdubar or Gilgamesh Legends, commonly known under the name of the Babylonian Nimrod Epic. The casts have been most carefully made by one of the modelers of the U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., from a clay tablet which I caused to be prepared some months ago by Rev. Dr. Rudolf Zehnpfund, of Rosslau, near Desau, Germany. The plaster has been colored throughout so as to give the casts the appearance of real baked cuneiform clay tablets. The color is about the same as in the two fragments of the first column of the Flood Tablet ( R M 2. II. 390 and 383) which I discovered in 1882, or in the fragment of the Daily Telegraph Collection (D. T. 42), containing a different recension of the account of the Deluge. Our tablet has the size of the largest Deluge fragment known in the Kouyunjik collection of the British Museum as K 2252. A diagram showing the dimensions of this fragment is given on p. 132 of my edition. This fragment, which I refer to as Deluge Tablet A, has been pieced together out of about 20 small pieces. The reverse, for instance, is composed of 15 different pieces. The text engraved on our modern Flood Tablet is the same as the one given on plates 134-149 of my edition. It is based on the fragments of 13 different copies of the Deluge Tablet now preserved in the British Museum. With the help of these duplicates the text can be almost completely restored. The only passages where we have rather extensive lacunae are now in the lower part of the first column, and in the lines describing the building of the vessel in the upper part of the second column, as well as the lines describing the coming of the Flood in the lower parts of the second column; the beginnings of some lines in the fifth column, and the ends of some lines in the first paragraph of the sixth column. ..." See also p. 96 in Vol. 22, no. 163, June 1903, of Johns Hopkins University Circulars. There is an advertisement for sale of what they call "The Chaldean Flood Tablet", and identify as a "modern reproduction of the Chaldean flood tablet, restored from duplicates." The advertisement contains an illustration of the reconstructed tablet, which matches A154816.
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content: See British Museum joined tablets #s K. 2602, K. 3321, K. 4486, K. 2252, and SM. 1881.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027146
label: USNM Number
content: A154816-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cast