Author: Smith, George
Title: The Chaldean Account of Genesis, Containing the Description of the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel the Times of the Patriarchs and Nimrod: Babylonian Fables, and Legends of the Gods; from the Cuneiform Inscriptions
Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880. Revised Edition. Hardcover. No date [1880-81-] Revised and corrected with additions by A.H. Sayce. xvi,337 pages plus four-page publisher ads. 30 illustrations including Frontis photograph, text vignettes. Brown cloth with gilt decoration of cover and spine. Spine titles in gilt. Large, thick octavo. Corners bumped, some fraying to head and tail of spine. Spine titles have some light scratching. cover spotted. Binding sound. Book plate and school library stamp to inside board. Some minor light pencilling to preface, otherwise text clean. In 1872, Smith achieved worldwide fame by his translation of the Chaldaean account of the Great Flood,"The Flood Tablet", the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic describes how the gods sent a flood to destroy the world. Like Noah, Utnapishtim was forewarned and built an ark to house and preserve living things. After the flood he sent out birds to look for dry land (British Museum). Good .

Keywords: Gilgamesh, the Flood, Chaldean