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' Text Appearing After Image: Plate 58. THE ASSYRIAN ACCQUNT OF THE DELUGE, inscribed in cuneiform characters on a terra-cotta tablet, from the Library of Assur-bani-pal, king of Assyria (B. C. 668-626), at Nineveh. (British Museum, No. K. 3375.) The Assyrian account of the Flood is told to the mythical hero Gilgamish by Khasisadrathe sage. The gods Anu, Bel, Ea, and Adar, assembled together in the city Surippak on theEuphrates, decreed a flood, and they bade Khasisadra to build a ship or ark large enough tohold himself, his family, and his servants and cattle. When the ship was ready, Khasisadraentered with his possessions, and closed the door, and the floods came and destroyedmankind. The flood lasted six days and seven nights, when, the goddess Ishtar havingentreated the gods on behalf of mankind, the rain ceased. The ship sailed over the seatowards the land of Nizir, where it remained until the waters abated. After seven daysKhasisadra sent forth a dove, but it returned. He next sent forth a swallow, and that
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