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As the first of the series of five cities of Eridu, the seat of Nudimmud or Enki, who was the third of the creating deities, it has been urged that the upper part of the Second Column must have included an account of the founding of Erech, the city of Anu, and of Nippur, Enlil's city.
Jensen and Zimmern read upshugina, but see Delitzsch, Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos, p. 135. See above, p. 238. In the first tablet, in the second in connection with the mission of Anu, and twice in the third in connection with Marduk's visit. Tiâmat's presence. Called Nudimmud.
Anu and Nudimmud are each mentioned for the first time at the beginning of a line, and the three lines following the reference to Nudimmud are entirely occupied with descriptions of his wisdom and power. But it is only in ll. 13-16 that any reference to Enlil can have occurred, and the traces preserved of their second halves do not suggestion the restoration. Cf. Tabl.
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