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Berossus on the antediluvian history (3)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore




01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery




01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery




01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



Keywords
antediluvian age
Berossus
composite beings
kings
lists
Period
3rd century BCE
Hellenistic Empires
Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars


Text
Ammenon = Enmenunna or Amelon, Annedotos = UË€anduga, Pautibiblon = Badtibira.

Berossus, Babyloniaca F3:
Then Ammenon, the Chaldean from the city Pautibiblon. He reigned twelve saroi. In his time, he says, Annedotos, a beast with the forms of man and fish, appeared from the Erythrean Sea


Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Berossus, Babyloniaca F3

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 18Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

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Cf. Berossus on the antediluvian history (1)
Cf. Berossus on the antediluvian history (2)
Cf. Berossus on the antediluvian history (4)
Cf. Berossus on the antediluvian history (5)
Cf. Berossus on the antediluvian history (6)
Cf. Berossus on the antediluvian history (7)
Cf. Berossus on the antediluvian history (8)
Cf. Berossus on the antediluvian history (9)
Cf. Flood story according to Cosmas (1)
Cf. The seven sages sent down to depths (1)
Cf. The ten antediluvian kings (1)

Amar Annus


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