Message #119007

[Crissy Herrell]

p. xxi

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
 
 PLATES
 
 
 
 Man's Golden Age
 Frontispiece
 
 
 
 FACING PAGE
 
I.
 A Scene from the Nippur Excavations: Rooms of the Temple "Tablet House"
 8
 
II.
 Oldest Literary Catalogue
 14
 
III.
 Nippur Archaic Cylinder
 18
 
IV.
 Gudea Cylinder
 19
 
V.
 "Chicago" Syllabary
 22
 
VI.
 Nippur Grammatical Text
 23
 
VII.
 Gods and the Nether World
 32
 
VIII.
 The Separation of Heaven and Earth
 36
 
IX.
 Enlil Separates Heaven and Earth
 37
 
X.
 Miscellaneous Mythological Scenes
 40
 
XI.
 Enlil and Ninlil: the Begetting of Nanna
 44
 
XII.
 Gods of Vegetation
 50
 
XIII.
 Enki and Ninhursag: the Affairs of the Water-god
 56
 
XIV.
 Enki, the Water-god
 60
 
XV and XVI.
 Inanna and Enki: the Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Erech
 64 and 65
 
XVII and XVIII.
 The Creation of Man
 70 and 71
 
XIX.
 Gods and Dragons
 78
 
20.
 Inanna's Descent to the Nether World
 85
 
 
 TEXT FIGURES
 
 
 
 
 PAGE
 
1.
 The Origin and Development of the Sumerian System of Writing
 17
 
2.
 The Deluge
 99
 
 
 MAP
 
 
1.
 Sumer in the First Half of the Third Millennium B.C.
 7
 

 



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