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The 16 pages that link to Library of Ashurbanipal, each with the reason it gives.

• Epic of GilgameshRelated: Its tablets preserve major portions of the Standard Babylonian version.

• Library of AlexandriaCompared with: It predates Alexandria and offers a different model of royal collecting in the ancient Near East.

• History of booksBroader topic: Its excavated tablets show how an ancient ruler collected, organized, and preserved texts.

• NinevehBroader topic: Its tablets preserve literary and scholarly works gathered in the city.

• Assyrian EmpireBroader topic: Its texts preserve literary and scholarly works from across Mesopotamia.

• AshurbanipalBroader topic: It is the most enduring institution associated with Ashurbanipal’s rule.

• Textual transmissionBroader topic: Its surviving tablets preserve works copied and collected in the ancient Near East.

• Sumerian literatureCompared with: Its later Akkadian manuscripts offer a contrast with the mainly Old Babylonian copies of Sumerian works.

• AssyriologyBroader topic: Its tablets preserve works of literature, scholarship, ritual, and administration.

• Austen Henry LayardRelated: Layard’s Nineveh excavations helped recover tablets from the collection, including literary works.

• LibraryBroader topic: Its surviving tablets show how ancient rulers collected and preserved written knowledge.

• EsarhaddonRelated: The scholarly court that developed under his son followed Esarhaddon's transfer of power.

• Hormuzd RassamRelated: Rassam’s Nineveh excavations recovered tablets from this collection, including a version of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

• EnkiduRelated: Its tablets supplied much of the surviving text of Enkidu’s epic.

• History of librariesBroader topic: Its tablets preserve a major example of royal collecting and scribal scholarship in ancient Mesopotamia.

• History of MesopotamiaBroader topic: Its tablets preserve texts copied from across Mesopotamian scholarly traditions.