title: Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia (2 Volumes)
author: Daniel David Luckenbill
description: Babylonians were very fond of compiliing lists of kings
zlib_text: ## Part XIII, London, 1901. As the scope of this
  
  
  work did not permit the inclusion of his translations, and commentary and
  notes, he published these in a private work entitled, "The Seven Tablets of
  Creation, or the Babylonian and Assyrian Legends concerning the creation of
  the world and of mankind," London, 1902, 8vo. A supplementary volume contained
  much new material which had been found by him since the appearance of the
  official edition of the texts, and in fact doubled the number of Creation
  Texts known hitherto.
  
  
  [Illustration: Babylonian map of the world, showing the ocean surrounding the
  world and making the position of Babylon on the Euphrates as its centre. It
  shows also the mountains as the source of the river, the land of Assyria, Bît-
  Iakinu, and the swamps at the mouth of the Euphrates. [No. 92,687.]]
  
  
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  THE OBJECT OF THE BABYLONIAN LEGEND OF THE CREATION.
  
  
  A perusal of the texts of the Seven Tablets of Creation, which King was
  enabled, through the information c