The Seven Tablets of Creation

The Seven Tablets of Creation is Leonard William King's early twentieth century translation and study of the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation epic, originally published by Luzac and cited here through the Internet Sacred Text Archive's hosted edition. Its value as a primary source is real, King was a serious Assyriologist working directly from the cuneiform tablets, and this remains a historically significant translation of a foundational Mesopotamian religious text. Its limit is its age, dating from 1902, predating a century of subsequent Assyriological scholarship and further tablet discoveries that have refined and in places corrected readings of the Enuma Elish, so a claim needing precise or current textual scholarship should be checked against a modern critical translation alongside King's historically important but dated one.