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The Epic of Gilgamesh

Uta-Napishtim tells Gilgamesh the story of the Flood: the eleventh tablet of the Babylonian epic.

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The Flood (Tablet XI), tr. E. A. Wallis Budge
E. A. Wallis Budge, 1920

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Only the Flood story (Tablet XI, lines 1–205), in E. A. Wallis Budge's translation (1920). Square brackets mark restorations of damaged text; modern editions draw on many more fragments.

The Eleventh Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamish (the Deluge), translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, in The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamish (London: British Museum, 1920). Public domain. Transcription by Project Gutenberg volunteers (eBook #7096), corrected against the 1920 printing. · Source ↗

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