the twenty-one tablets previously known, forty-nine separate tablets and fragments have now been identified as containing portions of the text of the Creation Series. The new information, . COLLECTION: Cuneiform tablets. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: MS Q4 p.2 Sumerian. Southern Mesopotamia is lmown as Sumeria or Babylonia. The Sumerian civilization began with city . The two Sumerian economic tablets analyzed below are from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Umma (Jokha in modern Iraq) and can be dated b