The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh
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The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh is a book by E. A. Wallis Budge. A. H. Layard carried out a series of excavations among the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh. The tablets found by Layard were of different sizes: the largest were rectangular, flat on one side and convex on the other, and measured about 9 ins. by 6½ ins., and the smallest were about an inch square.
Under the heading Uta-Napishtim Leaves the Ship, the lines read, “Then I brought out everything to the four winds and offered up a sacrifice.” Under the heading Speech of Ishtar, Lady of the Gods, the Lady of the Gods lifts up the priceless jewels which Anu had made according to her desire, saying, “O ye gods here present, as I shall never forget the lapis-lazuli jewels of my neck.” A baked clay six-sided cylinder is inscribed with the Annals of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria.
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- E. A. Wallis Budge
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- 76
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- Ancient History
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