Black and white crop of full engraving plate scan - from Plate 5 of the work "A second series of the monuments of Nineveh: including bas-reliefs from the Palace
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Uruk List of Kings and Sages

On 16 May 165 BC a priest at Uruk listed the sages back to the Flood, then signed it 'by his own hand'.

165 BCE (Seleucid)

The tablet gives the sages names but no bodies; the fish-men come from Berossus and temple figurines. Which source should shape how we picture them?

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Photo: editor Austen Henry Layard , drawing by L. Gruner, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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