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    "en": "Enki and Ninhursag",
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    "en": "The Sumerian Dilmun paradise text — the pure land where there was no illness or death; Enki's irrigation of Dilmun; the births in Dilmun; the eight plants Enki eats and the eight body-parts that fall ill; Ninhursag's healing; the eight healing-deities born from his body"
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    "fragmentationNote": "256 lines preserved across 6 small in-line lacunae (totaling 25 missing lines); ~91% of the composition preserved — considerably more complete than the Flood Story."
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