Assyrian Table with Deluge Legend Small 320×219 Medium 640×439 Large 1024×702 Download Tiff Original 2400×1646 | (2.1 MB) Description An illustration of an Assyrian tablet depicting part of the Deluge legend. A deluge myth or flood myth is a mythological story of a great flood sent by a deity or deities to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution. Keywords assyrian, deluge, Flood, hieroglyphic, legend, tablet Galleries Assyria Source: P. V. N. Myers A General History for Colleges and High Schools (Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1896) Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman
