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Excerpt from The Babylonian Epic of Creation: Restored From the Recently Recovered Tablets of Assur IN the preparation of this edition of the Babylonian Epic of Creation I have consulted the original tablets in the British Museum upon all doubtful passages. For the opportunity of studying these texts I am grateful to the Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities,. Sir ernest budge, d.litt., who has never failed to assist my work upon Sumerian and Babylonian Religion. I am also indebted to the late L. W. King, litt.d., for collating passages in the earlier stages of my studies upon. The tablets. The rev. S. A. B. Mercer, ph.d., Dean of Bexley Hall, Gambier, assisted me materially by copying out the transcription of a large part of the text and by verifying many references. For his labours in thus relieving me I am grateful. In the final stages of my work I came upon two unpublished tablets, K. 9188 and Rm. 275, in the British Museum, which relate to the myth of the Death and Resurrection of Bél. Sir ernest budge kindly permitted me to copy and publish these also. Mr. C. J. Gadd, m.a Assistant in the Assyrian Department, assisted me much by collations of doubtful passages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.