This publication contains a replica of a historical clay tablet of the special collections of the VU University Library. The original tablet contains the Hymn to Enlil, a text that has survived in a large number of copies. The hymn praises the god for his benefaction and authority; Enlil is addressed as the god responsible for life and culture, and the text deals with the structure of the cosmos. Focus is placed on Enlil's abode, the city Nippur, with many surviving copies originating there. The origin of this copy is unknown, but the hymn was known beyond Nippur and into Northern Babylonia.

Period: Old Babylonian (19th-16th centuries BCE).

Provenance: unknown.

Language: Sumerian.

Material: clay.

Dimensions: 14,4 x 10,3 x 3,4 cm.

Weight: 703 g.