Akkadian Nippur flood fragment · CBS13532 · CDLI P268565 · Wasserman Ms. J
An Akkadian flood witness with a matching Penn Museum public object record.
Record reviewed 2026-11-05 ·
- Catalogue reference
- CBS13532 · CDLI P268565 · Wasserman Ms. J
- Institution / route
- Penn Museum
- Region / collection context
- Mesopotamia
- Language
- Akkadian
- Physical form
- Clay tablet
- Translation evidence
- English edition located
- Access route
- Public museum catalogue and edition
Open the institutional record
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What the record covers
This is a different candidate from the Sumerian CBS10673/CBS10867 join.
Edition and translation
Wasserman 2020, Ms. J, pp. 77–79. Reverse 6′–9′ matched to the transcription and English translation on p. 78; photographic collation remains pending.
The open research question
Collate the selected signs with the tablet photograph. The museum record resolves the public catalogue/custody route, while the existing institutional inquiry retains its own response status.
Image and publication rights
Institution-hosted reading route. No image redistribution or new translation licence recorded for Babylon.
Dates and historical context
1400–1100 BCE · museum manufacture range
Object evidence. Dates this copy, not the flood narrated in it.
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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
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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
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Passage and translation coverage ↗Read the selected passage study
CBS13532 reverse 6′–9′ · translation on printed p. 78 · Selected transcription and translation checked
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