Mesopotamian Text

Mesopotamian Text

The Mesopotamian texts contained in this section span across multiple empires and eras of the ancient near east. From Sumer to Agade, and Babylon to Assyria, these texts were written between 4000BCE - 500CE

Sumerian Creation Myths

• Enlil's creation story

Sumerian Confliction Myths

• Nergal and Ereshkigal

Sumerian Hymns

• Hymn to Sin, the Moon God
• Hymn to Ramman, the Weather God
• Processional Hymn to Marduk

Akkadian Confliction Myths

• Myth of Adapa

Babylonian Creation Myths

• The Babylonian Cosmogony According to Damascius
• A Babylonian Cosmogony Ritual
• Another Version of the Creation of the World by Marduk
• The Enuma Elish Tablet I
• The Enuma Elish Tablet II
• The Enuma Elish Tablet III
• The Enuma Elish Tablet IV
• The Enuma Elish Tablet V
• The Enuma Elish Tablet VI + VII

Babylonian Confliction Myths

• Ellil and the Labbu
• The Seven Evil Demons

Babylonian Hymns

• Invocation to the Goddess Beltis

Assyrian Creation Myths

• The Assyrian Cosmology
• Ashur the Creator
• An Assyrian Building Inscription
• The Cuthaean Legend of Creation (Tr. by AH Sayce)
• The Legend of Creation from the Cutha Tablet (Tr. by G. Smith)

Assyrian Hymns

• The Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser I
• The Annals of Assur-Natsir-Pal
• The Inscription of the Black Obelisk

Neo Babylonian Historical Texts

• Berossus - The Early Kings
• Berossus - Primitive Revelation
• Berossus - Destruction by Fire

Other Historical Texts

• The Cylinder of Cyrus
• The Annals of Sargon of Accad and Naram-Sin
• Hammurabi's Code