Continuing with this theme, he discusses the British folk custom of burying a horse's head under the floor to improve a building's acoustics, speculating as to whether this was a survival of the pagan foundation deposit custom.
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This transition appears to have occurred sometime in the early 6th century BC . In foundation deposits of buildings it is difficult to identify material later than 600 BC, suggesting that changes to the settlement had occurred by the end of Late Orientalizing ( c . 640-600 BC ).
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In the month Taar�tu, in a propitious month, on an auspicious day, which ` amaa and Adad had revealed to me by means of divination, upon beds of silver and gold, choice gems, logs of resinous woods, aromatic herbs, and cuts of cedar wood, in joy and gladness, on the foundation deposit of Naram-Sin, son of Sargon, not a finger's breadth too wide or too narrow, I laid its brick work.
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[ii . 47-iii . 7 ] For ` amaa, the judge of heaven and the netherworld, concerning Ebabbar ['shining house'], his temple which is in Sippar, which Nebuchadnezzar, a former king had rebuilt and whose old foundation deposit he had looked for but not found-yet he rebuilt that temple and after forty-five years the walls of that temple had sagged-I became troubled, I became fearful, I was worried and my face showed signs of anxiety.
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While I led ` amaa out of its midst and caused him to dwell in another sanctuary, I removed the debris of that temple, looked for its old foundation deposit, dug to a depth of eighteen cubits into the ground and then ` amaa, the great lord, revealed to me the original foundations of Ebabbar, the temple which is his favorite dwelling, by disclosing the foundation deposit of Naram-Sin, son of Sargon, which no king among my predecessors had found in three thousand and two hundred years . [ 3]
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While I led ` amaa out of its midst and caused him to dwell in another sanctuary, I removed the debris of that temple, looked for its old foundation deposit, dug to a depth of eighteen cubits into the ground and then ` amaa, the great lord, revealed to me the original foundations of Ebabbar, the temple which is his favorite dwelling, by disclosing the foundation deposit of Naram-Sin, son of Sargon, which no king among my predecessors had found in three thousand and two hundred years . [ 3]
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And in a propitious month, on an auspicious day, which ` amaa and Adad revealed to me by means of divination, by the wisdom of Ea and Asalluhi, with the craft of the exorcist, according to the art of Kulla, the lord of foundations and brickwork, upon beads of silver and gold, choice gems, logs of resinous woods, aromatic herbs and cuts of cedar wood, in joy and gladness, on the foundation deposit of Aaaurbanipal, king of Assyria, who had found the foundation of ` almaneser [ III ], the son of Aaaurnasirpal [ II ], I cleared its foundations and laid its brickwork.
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[iii . 22-38 ] For Anunitu-the lady of warfare, who carries the bow and the quiver, who fulfills the command of Enlil her father, who annihilates the enemy, who destroys the evil one, who precedes the gods, who, at sunrise and sunset, causes my ominous signs to be favorable-I excavated, surveyed and inspected the old foundations of Eulmaa, her temple which is in Sippar-Anunitu, which for eight hundred years, [ 4 ] since the time of ` agarakti-` uriaa, king of Babylon, son of Kudur-Enlil, and on the foundation deposit of ` agarakti-` uriaa, son of Kudur Enlil, I cleared its foundations and laid its brickwork.
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