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British Museum, The Flood Tablet (K.3375)

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Gilgamesh Flood

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Museum object record for a principal Nineveh witness and its collection history

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Tablet XI belongs to a developed Gilgamesh composition whose flood episode is studied within the evolving Mesopotamian flood-text tradition.

Tablet XI and Atrahasis share plot, motifs, and close verbal material, indicating literary dependence or use of a closely related textual tradition.
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George Smith’s historical publication documents the modern Genesis comparison, but the listed sources do not establish that the surviving K.3375 copy was Genesis’s line-by-line source.

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