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English: A Sumerian Stone Tablet containing a Locust Charm; unknown origin (p. 30). It was labelled in a 1907 book as "the oldest writing in the world".


The tablet records the means taken to rid various tracts of the land of a plague of locust and caterpillars. The last line, "he made it bright," refers to the ceremonial purification of the field.
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Source Scanned from Sacred Books of the East *Babylonia & Assyria* editorship by Prof. Charles F. Horne (copyright 1907), p. 34. Full text: http://www.billheidrick.com/Orpd/Sacr1917/Sacred_Books_1.pdf
Author editorship by Prof. Charles F. Horne

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