The Chaldean account of Genesis : $b Containing the description of the creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the times of the patriarchsSmith, George
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The Chaldean account of Genesis : $b Containing the description of the creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the times of the patriarchs
The next fragment was supposed by Mr. Smith to relate to the fall of
man and to contain the speech of the deity to the newly-created pair.
This, however, is extremely doubtful, as will appear from the revised
translation below. The fragment is in so broken a condition that almost
anything may be made out of it. It is possible that nothing more is
intended by it than instructions as to the construction of an image of
a household god or spirit and the correct mode of worshipping it.
K 3364 obverse.
(Many lines lost.)
1. The whole day thy god thou shalt approach (or invoke),
2. sacrifice, the prayer of the mouth, the image ......
3. to thy god a heart engraved ..... thou hast.
4. How long to the image of the divinity,
5. supplication, humility, and bowing of the face,
6. fire (?) dost thou give to him, and bringest tribute,
7. and in reverence also with me thou goest straight?
8. In thy knowledge (?) also behold; in the tablets (writing)
9. worship and blessing thou exaltest.
10. Sacrifice and the preservation ...
11. and prayer for sin ....
12. the fear of the gods deserts thee (?) not ....
13. the fear of the Anunnaci thou completest ....
14. With friend and comrade speech thou makest ....
15. In the under-world speech thou makest to the propitious genii.
16. When thou speakest also he will give ....
17. When thou trustest also thou ....
18. ... a comrade also ....
19. .... thou trustest a friend ....
20. (In) thy knowledge (?) also
Reverse.
(Many lines lost.)
1. in the presence of beauty .... thou didst speak
2. thy beauty ....
3. beauty also .... the female spirit (?)
4. An age thou revolvest .. his enemies?
5. his rising (?) he seeks .... the man ....
6. with the lord of thy beauty thou makest fat (?)
7. to do evil thou shalt not approach him,
8. at thy illness .... to him
9. at thy distress ....
The next fragment is a small one; it is the lower corner of a tablet
with the ends of a few lines. Mr. Smith connected it with the legend of
the fall of man, but the mention of the god Sar-tuli-elli, “the king of
the illustrious mound,” would rather indicate that it has to do with
the story of the Tower of Babel. As, however, the fragment is too small
and mutilated to decide the question, it has been allowed to remain in
the place assigned to it by Mr. Smith, and not transferred to a later
chapter.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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