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Babylonian Story of the Deluge
Babylonian Story of the Deluge
as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh
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of ?] Ashur-bani-pal, king of hosts, king of the country of Assyria."
See on the Tablet of Astrological Omens, p. 22. The longer colophons
are of considerable interest and renderings of two typical examples
are here appended:--
I. Colophon of the Tablets of the Palace Library. (K. 4870.)
1. Palace of Ashur-bani-pal, king of hosts, king of the country of Assyria, 2. who trusteth in the god Ashur and the goddess Bêlit, 3. on whom the god Nebo (Nabû) and the goddess Tasmetu 4. have bestowed all-hearing ears 5. and his possession of eyes that are clearsighted, 6. and the finest results of the art of writing 7. which, among the kings who have gone before, 8. no one ever acquired that craft. 9. The wisdom of Nebo [as expressed in] writing, of every kind, 10. on tablets I wrote, collated and revised, 11. [and] for examination and reading 12. in my palace I placed--[I] 13. the prince who knoweth the light of the king of the gods, Ashur. 14. Whosoever shall carry [them] off, or his name side by side
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A pretty cool account of the Flood story from Babylon (similar to Noah's flood from the Bible). The book starts of with the account of how the tablets with the knowledge inscribed on them were first found and interpreted. Then the author gets into the story itself. The author often quotes the story, line by line as it was translated from Summerian. Pretty cool. :) Some maps would have helped, but you can google-images anything like that. I liked it, so I give it 3/5 stars
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