Identifier: babylonianstoryo00britrich (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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or, the warrior Enlil (■-^I *-\ ^TTT), 17. .Their messenger En-urta (-^j -jlrt! Id!) (and) 18. Their prince Ennugi (->f -^ *;t ^T!^)- 19. Nin-igi-azag, Ea, was with them (in council) and 20. reported their word to the house of reeds. (First Speech of Ea to Uta-Napishtim who is sleeping in a reed hut.) 21. O House of reeds, O House of reeds ! O Wall, O Wall ! 1 A transcript of the cuneiform text by George Smith, who was the first to translate it, will be found in Rawlinson, Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, Vol. IV., plates 43 and 44 ; and a transcript, with transliteration and translation by the late Prof. L. W. King, is given in his First Steps in Assyrian, London, i8g8, p. i6iff. 2 The site of this very ancient city is marked by the mounds of Farah, near the Shatt al-Kar, which is probably the old bed of the river Euphrates; many antiquities belonging to the earliest period of the rule of the Sumerians have been found there. Like the habiib of modern times, a sort of cyclone.
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i£ O. O ■O o rt H THE LEGEND AS TOLD BY UTA-NAPLSHTIM. 33 2223 24 25262728293031 36 37 38 3940 41 4243444546 47 O House of reeds, hear ! O Wall, understand ! O man of Shurippak, son of Ubara-Tutu Throw down the house, build a ship, Forsake wealth, seek after life, Abandon possessions, save thy life, Carry grain of every kind into the ship. The ship which thou shalt build, The dimensions thereof shall be measured, The breadth and the length thereof shall be the same. . . . the ocean, provide it with a roof. (Uta-Napishtims answer to Ea.) 32. I understood and I said unto Ea, my lord : 33. (I comprehend) my lord, that which thou hast ordered, 34. I will regard it with great reverence, and will perform it. 35. But what shall I say to the town, to the multitude, and to the elders ? (Second Speech of Ea.) Ea opened his mouth and spake And said unto his servant, myself, . . . Thus shalt thou say unto them : Ill will hath the god Enlil formed against me, Therefore I can no longer dwell in

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