. 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 . -•- /,». /. ^■mM^ Astrological Omens concerning cities. TABLET WITH COLOPHON. 23 TABLET FROM THE TEMPLE OF NEBO WITH COLOPHON. ^■t^^sr. [] Forecasts which formed the Fourth Tablet of the Series >^- ]Vf^. 24 THE EPIC OF GILGAMISH. 1854-5, and their examination by Rawlinson and Norrisbegan very soon after. Mr. Bowler, a skilful draughtsmanand copyist of tablets, whom Rawlinson employed in makingtransfers of copies of cuneiform texts for publ
. 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 . -•- /,». /. ^■mM^ Astrological Omens concerning cities. TABLET WITH COLOPHON. 23 TABLET FROM THE TEMPLE OF NEBO WITH COLOPHON. ^■t^^sr. [] Forecasts which formed the Fourth Tablet of the Series >^- ]Vf^. 24 THE EPIC OF GILGAMISH. 1854-5, and their examination by Rawlinson and Norrisbegan very soon after. Mr. Bowler, a skilful draughtsmanand copyist of tablets, whom Rawlinson employed in makingtransfers of copies of cuneiform texts for publication by litho-graphy, rejoined a considerable number of fragments ofbilingual lists, syllabaries, etc., which were published in thesecond volume of the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia,in 1866. In that year the Trustees of the British Museumemployed George Smith to assist Rawlinson in sorting, classify-ing and rejoining fragments, and a comprehensive examinationof the collection by him began. His personal interest inAssyriology was centred upon historical texts, especiallythose which threw any light on the Bible Narrative. Butin the course of his search for stories of the campaigns ofSargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon and Ashur-bani-pal, hediscovered amon
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