“A modern translation of the third passage [translated by T__*, R__**, H__***, and O__**** — see preceding post] reads:
In those days [this happened]: the temple of Anu and Raman
the great gods, my lords,
which formerly Samsiramanu, the Isakku of Assur,
Had built, and which in the course of 641 years had more and more decayed:
Assurdân, the King of Assyria,
the son of Ninebpalekur, King of Assyria,
had torn down this temple, but not destroyed it;
the son of Ninebpalekur, King of Assyria,
had torn down this temple, but not destroyed it;
throughout sixty years its foundation stone
had not again been laid.”
—from the Earle Havens Library, Baltimore, Maryland: C. W. Ceram in The March of
Archaeology (Trans., Richard and Clara Winston), Knopf, 1958,
p.210. *W.H.Fox Talbot, **Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, ***Edward Hincks,
****Julius Oppert
had not again been laid.”
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