[Main Text or Publication Number:] EA 357 ❧ [Text Descriptive Title:] The Myth of Nergal and Ereshkigal

[Text Description:] Nergal visits the underworld accompanied by demons, seizes the throne of Ereshkigal, queen of the Underworld, remains as king ❧ [Text or Publication Number Note:] EA 357; Knudtzon (1915), no. 357; BB 82; S. Izreel pp. 51-61, pls. XXIII-XXIV, Schr 195; WA 234+235+237+239a ❧ [Excavation Description:] Discovered by locals in 1887 at Tell el-Amarna ❧ [Medium:] Clay ❧ [Script Note:] Non-Alphabetic Cuneiform ❧ [Physical Object Description:] Clay tablet 11 x 10.5 cm (London frg); 11 x c. 10 cm (joined Berlin frgs); light gray to very pale brown clay ❧ [Physical Object Note:] BM 29865 joins to Berlin VAT 2710, VAT 1614, VAT 1611, VAT 161