Mesopotamian clay tablet describes a coracle - Noah's Ark?

[pong]

British Museum: Prototype For Noah's Ark Was Round

"A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia - modern-day Iraq - reveals striking new details about the roots of the Old Testament tale of Noah. It tells a similar story, complete with detailed instructions for building a giant round vessel known as a coracle - as well as the key instruction that animals should enter 'two by two.'"

 

[nameless]

 

[pong]

Ararat. My God, Turkey is full of so many ancient enigmas you can't count them all. It's on my "A" list for travel, along with Peru.

 

[Bob Watson]

 

[Oakenwulf]

So the Babylonians helped built a preark for Noah eh? Does Marduk know about this?

 

[Han]

British Museum: Prototype For Noah's Ark Was Round

"A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia - modern-day Iraq - reveals striking new details about the roots of the Old Testament tale of Noah. It tells a similar story, complete with detailed instructions for building a giant round vessel known as a coracle - as well as the key instruction that animals should enter 'two by two.'"

If it was me I would have preferred a boat with a sail, because I would not fancy going on the open ocean in a coracle!


Apparently the earliest depiction of a boat with sails is older than the tablet in question, and was discovered in the same geographical region:


"The earliest representation of a ship under sail appears on a painted disc found in Kuwait dating between 5000 and 5500 BC."*


Which makes me think that there must have been a reason that a "coracle" design was preferred to a "reed" boat with sails and rudder?

It could be as simple as the storm allegedly sent by god was so fierce that a sail would have been more trouble than use, however I would not fancy rowing a boat that contained 2x every animal on the planet, especially in a cataclysmic storm! Noah must have been quite an "oarsman".



((source)): Sailing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Randall]

British Museum: Prototype For Noah's Ark Was Round

"A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia - modern-day Iraq - reveals striking new details about the roots of the Old Testament tale of Noah. It tells a similar story, complete with detailed instructions for building a giant round vessel known as a coracle - as well as the key instruction that animals should enter 'two by two.'"

And who said getting a degree in basket weaving has no practical value ! ?​

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[Bob Watson]

The world was not to God's liking. .so why not erase and start fresh?

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[Bob Watson]

Think about it you are god you simply eliminate Satan and redo..no ark needed

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[Randall]

Think about it you are god you simply eliminate Satan and redo..no ark needed

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My question is: If God is so perfect why didn't he get it all right in the first place?

 

[manxman]

maybe he did get it right many times, and we are a friday afternoon job, or there again maybe he is just a figment of peoples imagination, maybe i am just an electrical impulse in some matrix, how is knowing going to pay my electricity bill ?.