Word: nirari
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Professor Lyon has not yet succeeded in finding out where this tablet was discovered, but it is very probable that it was in the Temple of Asshur, whose restoration by Ramman-nirari it records. This temple was located in Asshur, a city of great importance until it began to decline after...
...tablet may be divided into four parts, the introduction, the temple restoration, the ending and the date. The introduction, occupying ten lines, relates the military and religious titles of BudIl, the father of Ramman-nirari his gradfather, Bel-nirari, and his greatgradfather, Bel-nirari, and his greatgrandfather, Asshur-uballit. The account of the restoration of the temple is eleven lines long. It is written over an erasure and is in a different handwriting from the rest of the tablet. The ending consists of a blessing (4 lines) on future princes who should preserve the tablet, and a curse (23 lines...
Papers have been announced by the following Harvard members. Professor Lanman; An incident in the life of the illustrius Chinese Buddhist monk, Fa-hien. Professor Lyon; The recently discovered tablet of Raman-nirari. Mr. F. D. Chester; Ibrahim al-Mausuli: coincident traditions in the Kitab al-Agani, At-Tabari, and the Thousand and One Nights. Professor Toy; Foreign words in the Koran...
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