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    The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh: The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith
    The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh: The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith
    The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh: The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith
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    Release dateMar 16, 2020
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    The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh: The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith

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      The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh - E. A. Wallis Sir Budge

      E. A. Wallis Sir Budge

      The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh

      The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066092214

      Table of Contents

      The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith.

      The Walls and Palaces of Nineveh.

      Discovery of the Library of the Temple of Nebo at Nineveh.

      Nebo and His Library at Nineveh.

      Discovery of the Palace Library of Ashur-bani-pal.

      Ashur-bani-pal, Book-Collector and Patron of Learning.

      I. Colophon of the Tablets of the Palace Library. (K. 4870.)

      2. Colophon of the Tablets of the Library of Nebo. (RM. 132.)

      George Smith's Discovery of the Epic of Gilgamish and the Story of the Deluge.

      The Legend of the Deluge in Babylonia.

      The Legend of the Deluge According to Berosus.

      The Babylonian Legend of the Deluge as Told to the Hero Gilgamish by His Ancestor Uta-Napishtim, Who Had Been Made Immortal by the Gods.

      [First Speech of Ea to Uta-Napishtim who is sleeping in a reed hut.]

      [Uta-Napishtim's answer to Ea.]

      [Second Speech of Ea.]

      [The Building of the Ship.]

      [The Loading of the Ship.]

      [The Abubu (Cyclone) and its effects Described.]

      [Ishtar's Lament.]

      [Uta-Napishtim's Story continued.]

      [The Abating of the Storm.]

      [Uta-Napishtim Leaves the Ship.]

      [Speech of Ishtar, Lady of the Gods.]

      [The Anger of Enlil (Bêl) .]

      [Speech of En-Urta.]

      [Ea deifies Uta-Napishtim and his Wife.]

      [Uta-Napishtim Ends his Story of the Deluge.]

      The Epic of Gilgamish.

      The First Tablet.

      The Second Tablet.

      The Third Tablet.

      The Fourth Tablet.

      The Fifth Tablet.

      The Sixth Tablet

      The Seventh Tablet.

      The Eighth Tablet.

      The Ninth Tablet.

      The Tenth Tablet.

      The Eleventh Tablet.

      The Twelfth Tablet.

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      The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith.

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      In 1845–47 and again in 1849–51 Mr. (later Sir) A. H. Layard carried out a series of excavations among the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh, "that great city, wherein are more than sixteen thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left; and also much cattle" (Jonah iv, II). Its ruins lie on the left or east bank of the Tigris, exactly opposite the town of Al-Mawsil, or Môsul, which was founded by the Sassanians and marks the site of Western Nineveh. At first Layard thought that these ruins were not those of Nineveh, which he placed at Nimrûd, about 20 miles downstream, but of one of the other cities that were builded by Asshur (see Gen. x, 11, 12). Thanks, however, to Christian, Roman and Muhammadan tradition, there is no room for doubt about it, and the site of Nineveh has always been known. The fortress which the Arabs built there in the seventh century was known as "Kal'at-Nînawî, i.e., Nineveh Castle, for many centuries, and all the Arab geographers agree in saying that tile mounds opposite Môsul contain the ruins of the palaces and walls of Nineveh. And few of them fail to mention that close by them is Tall Nabi Yûnis, i.e., the Hill from which the Prophet Jonah preached repentance to the inhabitants of Nineveh, that exceeding great city of three days' journey (Jonah iii, 3). Local tradition also declares that the prophet was buried in the Hill, and his supposed tomb is shown there to this day.

      The Walls and Palaces of Nineveh.

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      The situation of the ruins of the palaces of Nineveh is well shown by the accompanying reproduction of the plan of page 2the city made by Commander Felix Jones, I.N. The remains of the older palaces built by Sargon II (B.C. 721–705), Sennacherib (B.C. 705–681), and Esarhaddon (B.C. 681–668) lie under the hill called Nabi Yûnis, and those of the palaces and other buildings of Ashur-bani-pal (B.C. 681–626) under the mound which is known locally as Tall al-'Armûshîyah, i.e., The Hill of 'Armûsh, and Kuyûnjik. The latter name is said to be derived from two Turkish words meaning many sheep, in allusion to the large flocks of sheep that find their pasture on and about the mound in the early spring. These two great mounds lie close to the remains of the great west wall of Nineveh, which in the time of the last Assyrian Empire was washed by the waters of the river Tigris. At some unknown period the course of the river changed, and it is now more than a mile distant from the city wall. The river Khausur, or Khoser, divides the area of Nineveh into two parts, and passing close to the southern end of Kuyûnjik empties itself into the Tigris. The ruins of the wails of Nineveh show that the east wall was 16,000 feet long, the north wall 7,000 feet long, the

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