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 31
ing through theground, saturates them with water containingchemicals, and these chemicals form crystals in everyavailable crack. The growth of the crystals furthersplits the tablets, some of them being literallyshivered. 10 TEE DI8G0VEEY OF Some idea of the mutilated condition of the Assy-rian… … Keverse of Inscribed Terra Cotta Tablet containing the AccountOF THE Deluge, showing the various fragments of which itIS composed. The clay records of the Assyrians are by thesemeans so broken up, that they are in some casesdivided into over one hundred fragments; and it isonly by collecting and…
