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Anu and the flood
Neo-Assyrian flood narrative from Nineveh, related to the Atra-ḫasīs story.
View at electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · CDLI P422071 · Try the in-browser translator
| Designation | BM.98977 |
|---|---|
| Museum no. | BM.98977 |
| Collection | Kuyunjik |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Literature > Narrative |
| Provenience | Nineveh |
| Findspot | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
| CDLI no. | P422071 |
| Source | electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich — MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified |
| Lines | 45 (43 with machine English) |
Machine draft. English generated by model atf-en-best-v2 (montycrypto/atf-to-english) (version d871547f92875415dbbc7f4a37fd65e35f8ac97d) on 2026-10-05, line by line from the ATF. Not a scholarly translation.
The transliteration is not reproduced here because the source (electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich) is not marked as republishable; read it at the source link above.
| Line | English (machine draft) |
|---|---|
| obverse | |
| 1' | “Ea, lord of the entering, hear it! |
| 2' | I have taken and placed. As soon as you place your reeds |
| 3' | Atar-leir set out and set out, he stood up. |
| 4' | his mouth he strews, and |
| 5' | I heard that the lord who entered and |
| 6' | I took, and it is located like the position of the feet. |
| 7' | “Ea, I heard about the entering of you and |
| 8' | I have taken and placed; just as your feet |
| 9' | ... when the 7 years... |
| 10' | ... he swore, and he swore. |
| 11' | ....... I have seen your face. |
| 12' | ... your... speak! |
| 13' | Ea, his son, speaks: |
| 14' | he shall swear to her. |
| 15' | ... underworld and underworld |
| 16' | ... shitamanu-disease |
| 17' | ...... |
| 18' | ... my... |
| 19' | ... he... |
| 20' | |
| reverse | |
| 1' | |
| 2' | Adad has bound his neck(?) |
| 3' | he entered, and he fled |
| 4' | The aru-spirit, response(?)..., he smote, and he smote. |
| 5' | Adad has smashed his face with clay. |
| 6' | This is a mountain, it is a mountain. |
| 7' | (Possessor of) a scepter, a scepter, a scepter, |
| 8' | The father......... |
| 9' | Ur-, a pi, a pi, a piu, his arm is |
| 10' | they took, to his side they saw. |
| 11' | ... there is... |
| 12' | In the morning, in the midst of the gods,..., |
| 13' | he is ill, he is ill, he is ill, he is ill... |
| 14' | went (and) Ninurta ascended. |
| 15' | Erra-kal made a tarkullu-prayer to him. |
| 16' | ... in his ear he made the heavens rejoice. |
| 17' | ... the land like a pot of her own |
| 18' | ... he has gone out, he is a frightened |
| 19' | If there is a mole in the midst of the utensils, he will have mercy on him. |
| 20' | He became afraid and Anu shouted about the flood |
| 21' | ... the gods have separated |
| 22' | ... Nintu, her sons, the uppuqu to her mouth |
| 23' | ... he will guard her..., |
| 24' | ...... |
| 25' | ...... |