Earliest Flood Tablet Recreation is resin cast about 2 inches tall by 2.25 inches wide. Found at Nippur by Dr. Hilprecht with the University of Pennsylvania expedition and published in 1910. He dates this tablet to about 2100 BC. Dr. Hilprecht claims it is the earliest Flood Tablet and that it more closely resembles the Genesis story of the flood than the later Babylonian Flood story. This created a huge controversy. See "The So-Called Peters-Hilprecht Controversy." This tablet is a recreation and not an exact copy of the cuneiform.