The same event, three ways

Not the line you just heard. Another survival. One sitting. The form changes.

Empty chairs facing a lectern, rain on the windows, gaslight

01 · A note

3 December 1872

London. The Society of Biblical Archaeology.

George Smith, of the British Museum, reads a translation from Assyrian tablets found at Nineveh. Among them is a flood. The Daily Telegraph reports the lecture.

The tablet later catalogued as K.3375 is in the British Museum still.