Adapa

thumb|Oannès – Adapa from Odilon Redon in the [[Kröller-Müller Museum]]

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thumb|Oannès – Adapa from Odilon Redon in the [[Kröller-Müller Museum]]

Adapa was a Mesopotamian mythical figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality. The story, commonly known as "Adapa and the South Wind", is known from fragmentary tablets from Tell el-Amarna in Egypt (around 14th century BC) and from finds from the Library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria (around 7th century BC). The oldest tradition about him is from Me-Turan/Tell Haddad tablets (around 19th–16th century BC), which is written in Sumerian.