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This Neo-Assyrian clay tablet from the British Museum contains a fragment of the world's oldest known complete epic poem the Epic of Gilgamesh. This fragment tells the story of wise man Utnapishtim, whom the gods saved from a destructive flood, which they sent to punish mankind.
This section of the Gilgamesh epic echoes the later deluge myths of Noah, from Genesis, & Deucalion, from Greco-Roman myth, the most complete version of which is told in the Latin poet Ovid's Metamorphoses. This image shows a page from a Venetian edition of Ovid pub. in 1497.
https://britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_K-3375
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utnapishtim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses
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