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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 289

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th, inwhich, of course, it should naturally appear. This assists in explaining a curious tablet printedin Cuneiform Inscriptions, vol. iii. p. 52, No. 1,which has been misunderstood. This tablet speaksof the appearance of comets, one of which has a taillike a lizard (or creeping thing) and a… … Composite Figdres (Scobpion Men) ; from anAssYKiAN Cylinder. feathers like precious stones, seen by Izdubar on hisjourney. I have altered my translation of the passage in pp.255, 256, which I now believe to relate that Izdubarat the direction of Urhamsi made a spear from oneof the trees of the…

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