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 (1920) (14763210532)

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



Text Appearing Before Image:
Plan of the ruins of the walls, temples and palaces of Nineveh, showing the course ofthe River Khausur, and the great protective ditches outside the eastern wall. The southernmound (Nabi Yflnis) contains the ruins of palaces, etc., built by Sargon II, Sennacheriband Esarhaddon, and the northern mound (Kuyunjik) the Palaces and Library ofAshur-bani-pal, the Library of Nebo, etc. From the drawing ?nade by the late CommanderFelix Jones, I.N. THE BABYLONIAN STORY OF THE DELUGE.
Text Appearing After Image:
Baked clay cylinder of Sennacherib, King of AssjTria, from B.C. 705to 681, inscribed with an account of eight campaigns of the king,including the capture and sack of Babylon, the invasion of Palestine,and the siege of Jerusalem ; it is dated in the eponymy of Bel-imurani,i.e., B.C. 691. B.M. No. 91,032. This cylinder was found amongthe ruins of a palace of Sennacherib under the mound of Nabi YunU,and was bought by Colonel J. Taylor, Consul-General of Baghdadin 1830, from whose representatives it was bought by the Trusteesof the British Museum in 1855. the corridor whichpassed the cham-bers and led tothe river, and aconsiderable num-ber were kicked onto the river frontby the feet of theterrified fugitivesfrom the palacewhen it was set onfire. The tabletsfound by Layardwere of differentsizes ; the largestwere rectangular,flat on one sideand convex on theother, and mea-sured about 9 ins,by 6; ins., andthe smallest wereabout an inchsquare. The im-portance of this find was notsufficiently