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In this version Eabani gives Gilgamesh a description of Aralû, which tallies with the one found in the Ishtar tale. Text defective. Jeremias' suggestion, "the land that thou knowest," misses the point. The person addressed does not know the land. See Haupt's Nimrodepos, pp. 17, 40, and Delitzsch's Assyr. Wörterbuch, p. 321, note. Lit., 'the one who has entered it. I.e., of the inhabitants.
Probably neither is right; certainly Murphy's great roof of wood would never have been made, and as for Haupt's dome nothing domed was built in Portugal till long after and that at first only on a small scale.
That the discovery of a sea route to India had a great influence on the architecture of Portugal cannot be denied, for the direct result of this discovery was to fill the coffers of a splendour-loving king with what was, for the time, untold wealth, and so to enable him to cover the country with innumerable buildings; but tempting as it would be to accept Haupt's theory, it is surely more reasonable to look nearer home for the origin of these peculiar features, and to see in them only the culmination of the Manoelino style and the product of an even more exuberant fancy than that possessed by any other contemporary builder.
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