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
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aratively earlyperiod of his reign he seems to have devoted himself to the studyof the history of his country, and to the making of a greatPrivate Library. The tablets that have come down to us provenot only that he was as great a benefactor of the Library of theTemple of Nebo as any of his predecessors, but that he washimself an educated man, a lover of learning, and a patron ofthe literary folk of his day. In the introduction to his Annalsas found inscribed on his great ten-sided cylinder in the BritishMuseum he tells us how he took up his abode in the chambersof the palace from which Sennacherib and Esarhaddon hadruled the Assyrian Empire, and in describing his own educationhe says : I, Ashur-bani-pal, within it (i.e., the palace) understood the wisdom of Nebo, all the art of writing of every crafts- man, of every kind, I made myself master of them all (i.e., of the various kinds of writing).^ T? ■<^ ^k) (Brit. Mus., No. 91,026, Col. i, 11. 31-33). ASHUR-BANI-PALS CYLINDER. 15
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Baked clay ten-sided cylinder inscribed wiih a description of the most important eventsof the reign of Ashur-bani-pal, king of Assyria, B.C. 668-626, and an account ofthe building operations which he carried on in Nineveh. B.M. No. 91,026. Thiscylinder was discovered in a chamber in one of the main walls of the palace ofAshur-bani-pal at Nineveh by Mr. Hormuzd Rassam in 1878. 16 THE BABYLONIAN STORY OF THE DELUGE. These words suggest that Ashur-bani-pal could not onl)/read cuneiform texts, but could write Hke a skilled scribe, andthat he also understood all the details connected with the ^fu^mK^iiammm •n ^^ ■.!■ •*?■ i\(\M >i> ^a i W-. I

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