Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Budge Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis
Title : The babylonian legends of the creation and the fight between Bel and the Dragon As told by Assyrian tablets from Nineveh
Year : 1921

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Discovery of the tablets. THE baked clay tablets and portions of tablets which describe the views and beliefs of the Babylonians and Assyrians about the Creation were discovered by Mr. (later Sir) A. H. Layard, Hormuzd Rassam and George Smith, Assistant in the Depart ment of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum. They were found among the ruins of the Palace and Library of Ashur-bani-pal (B.C. 668-626) at Kuyunjik (Nineveh), between the years 1848 and 1876. ...