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Of the people rescued from the Flood (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery


Keywords
Babylon
Berossus
flood
Period
3rd century BCE
Hellenistic Empires
Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars


Text
Berossus, Babyloniaca F4b:
When these people (rescued from the flood) came to Babylon, they dug up the writings at (the city) of the Sipparians and founded many cities and rebuilt shrines and founded anew Babylon.


Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Berossus, Babyloniaca F4b

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 21Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

Amar Annus


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