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A 4,000-Year-Old Silver Goblet May Depict a Cosmic Creation Sequence — Not the Enuma Elish Myth
A new study is challenging long-held assumptions about one of the most enigmatic artworks from the Bronze Age Levant. The ˁAin Samiya goblet—an 8-centimeter silver vessel dated to the Intermediate Bronze Age (c. 2650–1950 BCE)—has traditionally been interpreted as an early visual reference to the Babylonian Enuma Elish creation myth. Now, fresh evidence suggests the…