Sumerian Flood Tablet · Nippur · CBS10673 + CBS10867 · CDLI P265876
A surviving Sumerian flood witness joined with CBS10867.
Record reviewed 2026-11-05 ·
- Catalogue reference
- CBS10673 + CBS10867 · CDLI P265876
- Institution / route
- Penn Museum
- Region / collection context
- Mesopotamia
- Language
- Sumerian
- Physical form
- Clay tablet
- Translation evidence
- English edition located
- Access route
- Public images linked
Open the institutional record
Use the links below to read the original catalogue, available images or named edition. Image and text access follow the source institution’s conditions.
What the record covers
A damaged tablet with text on both sides; the catalogue identifies creation, cities, rulers and the flood narrative.
Edition and translation
The museum supplies bibliography and identifies ETCSL 1.7.4 and composite Q000357.
The open research question
Collate the joined fragments with the selected translation. Keep the generic source-list label “Nippur Tablet” unresolved until its intended witness is known.
Image and publication rights
Institution-hosted reading route. No image redistribution or new translation licence recorded for Babylon.
Dates and historical context
About 1650 BCE · museum dating
Object evidence. An approximate manufacture date; it does not date a historical flood.
Dates for a copy or material do not automatically establish the date of composition, the events narrated, or a symbolic cycle.
Carry the reading into Babylon
Begin with the surviving words and the edition’s own uncertainty. Then explore Babylon’s named teaching with the Father and Yeshua at its devotional centre. Every reader keeps their dignity, judgement and freedom to question.
Related witnesses and routes
Compare references before combining their contents.
Learning in the Light
In Babylon, the Father’s light opens perspective, learning and a chosen next step. Your worth remains intact. Every person is sovereign, with dignity, freedom and room to grow.
Read the learning principle ↗Passage and translation coverage
Read this witness’s edition links, open coverage questions and next research task.
Passage and translation coverage ↗Read the selected passage study
ETCSL 1.7.4 · Segment D, lines 1–11; physical column concordance pending · Composite edition unit and English reading checked
Read the selected passage study ↗Follow the document biography
Read the author and scribe roles, separate the dates, check translation coverage and follow the open evidence questions.
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