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Show Clay Poem Translation A poem inscribed on clay tablets about 1750 B. C, which tells in lofty language of a political "congress" held about 5,000 years ago in Erech, a city in ancient Sumer, has been translated by Dr. Samuel Noah Kramer, Clark research' professor of Assyriology and curator of the tablet collection of the University of Pennsylvania museum. The assembly, as-sembly, according to Dr. Kramer's translation of the inscriptions found on six tablets and fragments, convened con-vened while the hero Gilgamesh was king of Erech to make a decision deci-sion on an issue of war or peace. Sur.ier corresponds roughly to the southern half of modern Iraq. |