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

Colophon of a tablet from the Palace Library of Ashur-bani-pal containing incantations in the Sumerian language, with interlinear translations in Assyrian. For an English rendering see following page. From Rawlinson, Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, Vol. IV, Plate VI, col. 6 (K. 4870).

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

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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