Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria

Marduk and Tiamat, Gilgamesh, Ishtar's descent, the flood story that predates Genesis - the Mesopotamian material set out in order for the general reader. Spence wrote it while the cuneiform tablets were still being translated. This edition is bound with sixty plates of painting, among them works by Orcagna, Robert Tonge and John Linnell, and includes a preface, glossary and index.