| PLATES |
| Man's Golden Age |
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| I. | A Scene from the Nippur Excavations: Rooms of the Temple "Tablet House" |
| II. | Oldest Literary Catalogue |
| III. | Nippur Archaic Cylinder |
| IV. | Gudea Cylinder |
| V. | "Chicago" Syllabary |
| VI. | Nippur Grammatical Text |
| VII. | Gods and the Nether World |
| VIII. | The Separation of Heaven and Earth |
| IX. | Enlil Separates Heaven and Earth |
| X. | Miscellaneous Mythological Scenes |
| XI. | Enlil and Ninlil: the Begetting of Nanna |
| XII. | Gods of Vegetation |
| XIII. | Enki and Ninhursag: the Affairs of the Water-god |
| XIV. | Enki, the Water-god |
| XV and XVI. | Inanna and Enki: the Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Erech |
| XVII and XVIII. | The Creation of Man |
| XIX. | Gods and Dragons |
| 20. | Inanna's Descent to the Nether World |
| TEXT FIGURES |
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| 1. | The Origin and Development of the Sumerian System of Writing |
| 2. | The Deluge |
| MAP |
| 1. | Sumer in the First Half of the Third Millennium B.C. |
