TRANSLATED BY W. ST. CHAD BOSCAWEN

This legend is found on a tablet marked K, 3,657, in the British Museum.

The story which the tablet contains appears to be the building of some

great temple tower, apparently by command of a king. The gods are angry at

the work, and so to put an end to it they confuse the speech of the

builders. The tablet is in a very broken condition, only a few lines being

in any way complete.

The late Mr. George Smith has given a translation of the legend in his

work on Chaldean Genesis, and I have published the text and translation in

the fifth volume of "Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology."

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