The Chaldean account of Genesis : containing the description of the creation, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom, the times of the Patriarchs, and Nimrod, Babylonian fables, and legends of the gods : from the cuneiform inscriptions (1876)
Smith, George, 1840-1876 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 266
eabani laid hold of the bull by THE ADVENTURES OF I8HTAB. 239 the head and tail while Izdubar killed it, and Hea-bani in the engraving is represented holding the bullby its head and tail. At the close of the sixth tablet the story is againlost, only portions of the thu*d and fourth columnsof the… … IZDLBAK AND HeABANI IN CONFLICT WITH THE LlON AND BcLL. an extract from the seventh tablet of the Izdubarlegends. The tablet with the descent of Ishtar into Hades-was first noticed by Mr. Fox Talbot in the Transac-tions of the Royal Societ}^ of Literature, but hewas entirely abroad as to the…
