Mesopotamian civilizations

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  Adapa fragment MLC 1296

  Neo-Assyrian clay fragment written in Akkadian, preserving the beginning of Adapa’s story in the Morgan Library & Museum.

  Adapa fragment A, MLC 1296, Neo-Assyrian, about the seventh century BCE, Morgan Library & Museum. Preserves the opening; not Amarna EA 356 or a portrait of Adapa or Adam. Photograph: Daderot, 2020; CC0 1.0

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  Sargon birth tablet K.3401

  Akkadian clay tablet from Nineveh preserving Sargon’s birth story in the Neo-Assyrian period, many centuries after the king’s lifetime.

  K.3401 from Nineveh, a Neo-Assyrian witness to Sargon’s birth legend, British Museum. A copy later than the king, not Moses’ basket or an image of the infant. © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.5

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