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Ashurbanipal's library gathers some thirty thousand tablets — and holds the Gilgamesh flood account.
In plain words
Ashurbanipal's palace library gathers some thirty thousand tablets, the Gilgamesh flood story among them: the palace that collects every text, a recurring tool of control, first built in full at Nineveh.
The mechanism
ENCLOSURE — the palace collecting every text is a recurring instrument, and Nineveh is its first full instance
How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED; a capture
- Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
- Plate — Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh (the Flood Tablet), from the Library of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh · British Museum · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Library_of_Ashurbanipal_The_Flood_Tablet.jpg
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