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Title: The Babylonian story of the deluge as told by Assyrian tablets from Nineveh : e discovery of the tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Deluge Nineveh (Extinct city) -- Libraries
Publisher: (London) British Museum, Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Explanatory Lil^t of Words with glosses SPECIMENS OF TABLETS FROM NINEVEH.
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1. Label, inscribed with the title of a series of astrological forecasts. 2. Label, inscribed with the title of a series of omens. 3. Part of a text containing grammatical paradigms. PALACE LIBRARY OF ASHUR-BANI-PAL. 13 mound, who was anxious to got the excavations finished sothat he might again graze his flocks on the mound, urgedRassam to get to work in spite of RawUnsons agreement withM. Place. He and Rassam made arrangements to excavatethe northern part of the mound clandestinely and by night,and on 20th December, 1853, the work began. On the firstnight nothing of importance was found ; on the second nightthe men uncovered a portion of a large bas-relief ; and on thethird night a huge mass of earth collapsed revealing a veryfine bas-relief, sculptured with a scene representing x\shur-bani-pal standing in his chariot. The news of the discovery wasquickly carried to all parts of the neighbourhood, and as itwas impossible to keep the diggings secret any longer, the workwas continued

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