The Chaldean Account of Genesis From the Cuneiform Inscriptions
The Chaldean Account of Genesis From the Cuneiform Inscriptions
George Smith
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Irain lost, only portions of the third and fourth columns of the next tablet being preserved, but light is thrown on this portion of the narrative by the remarkable tablet describing the descent of Istar into Hades. It is possible that this tablet formed an episode in the sixth tal)lct of the Izdubar legends. This tablet containint]: the descent of Istar into ?i: ■:::J^r- IZDCBAR AND HeA-BANI IN CONFLICT WITH TUE LlON AND BlLL. Hades was first noticed by Mr. Fox Talbot in the "Transactions of t...he Royal Society of Literature, " but his attempt at a translation was a failure. Mr. Smith subsequently published a short notice of it in the " North British Review, " and afterwards a translation of it in the " Daily Telegraph. " Prof. Schrader brought out a monograph upon it in 1874, and both M. Lenormant and Dr. Oppert have worked at it. The most recent translation is one made into Italian by M. Lenormant in a puldication entitled 250 THE ADVENTURES OF ISTAB. "II mito di Atlone-Tammnz, '' 1879, upon the basis of the one made by Dr.
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