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

by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge

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19. Nin-igi-azag, Ea, was with them [in council] and

20. reported their word to the house of reeds.

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

21. O House of reeds, O House of reeds! O Wall, O Wall! page 33

22. O House of reeds, hear! O Wall, understand!

23. O man of Shurippak, son of Ubara-Tutu (

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