The Seven Tablets of Creation is Leonard William King's early twentieth century translation and study of the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation epic, originally published by Luzac and cited here through the Internet Sacred Text Archive's hosted edition. Its value as a primary source is real, King was a serious Assyriologist working directly from the cuneiform tablets, and this remains a historically significant translation of a foundational Mesopotamian religious text. Its limit is its age, dating from 1902, predating a century of subsequent Assyriological scholarship and further tablet discoveries that have refined and in places corrected readings of the Enuma Elish, so a claim needing precise or current textual scholarship should be checked against a modern critical translation alongside King's historically important but dated one.
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Leonard William King's 1902 translation and study of the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish, known by this book's title as the seven tablets of creation; a period translation, cited for its content rather than as a modern critical edition. NotesKing's translation and study of the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish, the "seven tablets of creation."
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AuthorLeonard William King
PublisherLuzac / Internet Sacred Text Archive
Publication Year1902
URLhttps://sacred-texts.com/ane/stc/
Source Typeprimary-text
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This source names Babylonians directly: "The Seven Tablets of Creation is Leonard William King's early twentieth century translation and study of the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation epic, originally published by Luzac and cited here..."
This source names Mesopotamians directly: "The Seven Tablets of Creation is Leonard William King's early twentieth century translation and study of the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation epic, originally published by Luzac and cited here..."
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This source backs 59 claims across the atlas. As facts: 42 well-attested. As cited relationships: 9 holds, 2 connected. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Passages, 39 claims: 28 well-attested, 7 holds, 4 general references.
- Articles, 10 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
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