Begin by reading the earliest quotation (i.e., way of seeing). Notice how your perception morphs as you read each successive quotation.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

[This quote continues from the previous post.]
“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; 
    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

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