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| − | <onlyinclude>Another pair of gold and silver plates has been found since the Darius plates, and of these the golden tablet begins: "Palace of Assurnasirpal . . . on tablets of silver and gold I have established my foundations." This has been held to illustrate a general belief in the East that a building should be founded on plates of gold and silver recounting the name and the deeds of the royal builder.<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&index=5 Chapter 2], citing Jean Bottéro, "Deux tablettes de fondation, en or et en argent, d'Assurnasirpal II," ''Semitica'' 1 (1948): 25—32. Tablet translation is on 26.}}</ref></onlyinclude> | + | {{FME-Source |
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| + | Another pair of gold and silver plates has been found since the Darius plates, and of these the golden tablet begins: "Palace of Assurnasirpal . . . on tablets of silver and gold I have established my foundations." This has been held to illustrate a general belief in the East that a building should be founded on plates of gold and silver recounting the name and the deeds of the royal builder.<ref>{{Book:Nibley:CW06|pages=[http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1107&index=5 Chapter 2], citing Jean Bottéro, "Deux tablettes de fondation, en or et en argent, d'Assurnasirpal II," ''Semitica'' 1 (1948): 25—32. Tablet translation is on 26.}}</ref></onlyinclude> | ||
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| + | [[Category:Book of Mormon/Anthropology/Metal plates|Metal plates]] | ||
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Another pair of gold and silver plates has been found since the Darius plates, and of these the golden tablet begins: "Palace of Assurnasirpal . . . on tablets of silver and gold I have established my foundations." This has been held to illustrate a general belief in the East that a building should be founded on plates of gold and silver recounting the name and the deeds of the royal builder.[1]

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