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Berossus on the antediluvian history (6)

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King lists
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.11 Historiography
05.11.02 Historiographic texts
05.11.02.03 King lists
Seven antediluvian kings
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.02 Human history
01.02.03 Antediluvian age
01.02.03.01 Seven antediluvian kings
Seven sages
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.02 Human history
01.02.03 Antediluvian age
01.02.03.03 Seven sages

Keywords
antediluvian age
Berossus
composite beings
kings
lists

Period
3rd century BCE
Hellenistic Empires

Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

Text
Euedorachos = Enmeduranki = Enoch, Odakon = Utuabzu.

Berossus, Babyloniaca F3:
Then Euedorachos from (the city) Pautibiblon became king and reigned for eighteen saroi. In his time, he says, another creature similar in its mixture of fish and and man named Odakon appeared from the Erythrean Sea.

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

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 19

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

Amar Annus

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