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The Emperor's Secrets of the Southwest Palace of Baghdad
The british consul back in baghdad, rawlinson, insisted that rassam look for inscribed tablets. He paid relatively little attention to the writing. And almost all of it was in a writing that he himself didn't read. Most of them also were stamped with seals that may have been official seals from the imperial government. A few also were inscribed in other writing systems such as egyptian or phoenician writing.
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