Look for the copper tablet-box,Undo its bronze lock,Open the door to its secret,Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and rea — Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Look for the copper tablet-box,Undo its bronze lock,Open the door to its secret,Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and rea — Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Look for the copper tablet-box,Undo its bronze lock,Open the door to its secret,Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and rea — Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Look for the copper tablet-box,Undo its bronze lock,Open the door to its secret,Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and rea — Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Look for the copper tablet-box,Undo its bronze lock,Open the door to its secret,Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and rea — Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
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Look for the copper tablet-box,Undo its bronze lock,Open the door to its secret,Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and read it,The story of that man, Gilgamesh, who went through all kinds of sufferings.

— Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
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