Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX V. THl CHALDiEAN ACCOUNT OF THE DELUGE; TRANSCRIPTION OF THE TEXT WITH INTERLINEAR TRANSLATION. Column 1. 8. ITtuieatra ana iabt va izakkara ana Iztubar Hasisatra after that also said to Izdbubar (?): 9. lupUka Iztubar amat Let me reveal to thee 0 Izdbubar (?) the narrative nifirti f1) Completed according to the new fragment recently brought to the British Museum by Mr. Hormuzd Rasoarn. 18. amattunu yusanna ana gi[rib eut]li ta their command repeated in a dream and 19. ana ku aimtu3su(l) time va i>jab[bi yiUi I _ hia decree hearing and he said to me: 20. Surippakitil mar Ubaratuta "Man of Shurippak, son of Uharatutu, 21. at]ta bint elippa uhhar'ia thou build a vessel, complete it .... 22 apkura zir u napisti I will destroy the seed and the life. 23. saliva zir nopfati kalama Cause also to enter the seed of lives of all specie* ana libbi flippi into the interior of the vessel. 24. elippu la labannusi atta The vessel that thou shall build it, thou, 25. neru ammat niiduda minatuia six hundred cubits in length its measure, 26. sum ammat mitljar ruiuija u mtua&a sixty cubits the rising of its breadth and its height. 27 va apsi 6si DEGREESullilti ako on the ocean this, cover it with a roof.' 28. anaku idi va azakkara ana a beliya I, I understood and I said to a my lord: 29. tlippti] bini sa tagba "the vessel to build which thou commandest, atta kiam thou, thus, 30 anaku ibbuH I, I will make 31 abli ummanu u tibutuv the sons of the army (") and the old men." 32. [fla paju ibui va f]qabbi uakkara a his mouth made and he spoke, he said ana ardasu yfttav to his servant myself: 0) The new fragment presents here, instead of this reading, ana]ku ik-ku (!) That is, the young men in the xtrengih of their years, at the age..."
