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University Museum, University of Pennsylvania

This fragmentary cuneiform tablet from Nippur—part of the collection of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania—will soon be available for online viewing, thanks to scholars with the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Its text records a Mesopotamian flood myth in which a remnant of mankind is saved from a catastrophic deluge by King Ziusudra—a theme later echoed in the biblical account of Noah.