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Cylinder with commemorative text Dried clay barrel; inscribed in cuneiform; baked hard for conservation purposes Centimetres: 20 (length), 12.5 (diameter) 604-562 BC Iron Age; Neo-Babylonian; Nebuchadnezzar II; 6th century BC Area of Origin: Iraq; Babylon(?); Southern Mesopotamia Description: Official openings of buildings today often include a formal ceremony and a commemorative wall plaque. In the ancient world, they dedicated an object to a god to avert bad luck and placed the item in a box beneath the building’s foundations. The barrel cylinder (shown here) was inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform and commemorates the reconstruction of a temple by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon. The Akkadian period in Mesopotamia dates to about 2200 BC. Part of the inscription reads “Oh (god) Lugal-Marada … slay the disobedient, smash their weapons, ruin all the enemy land … make my deeds agreeable to god Marduk, king of heaven and earth.”

Cylinder with commemorative text
Dried clay barrel; inscribed in cuneiform; baked hard for conservation purposes
Centimetres: 20 (length), 12.5 (diameter)
604-562 BC
Iron Age; Neo-Babylonian; Nebuchadnezzar II; 6th century BC
Area of Origin: Iraq; Babylon(?); Southern Mesopotamia

Description: Official openings of buildings today often include a formal ceremony and a commemorative wall plaque. In the ancient world, they dedicated an object to a god to avert bad luck and placed the item in a box beneath the building’s foundations.

The barrel cylinder (shown here) was inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform and commemorates the reconstruction of a temple by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon. The Akkadian period in Mesopotamia dates to about 2200 BC.

Part of the inscription reads “Oh (god) Lugal-Marada … slay the disobedient, smash their weapons, ruin all the enemy land … make my deeds agreeable to god Marduk, king of heaven and earth.”

Filed under Ancient history text Cuneiform writing 6th century BC

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A two-sided gold horned deer with folded legs. Length 4.9 centimeters; height 3.5 centimeters; depth 1.15 centimeters. Location: Zhalauli (Kegen district, Almaty region). Seventh to sixth century B.C. Credit: Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty

A two-sided gold horned deer with folded legs.

Length 4.9 centimeters; height 3.5 centimeters; depth 1.15 centimeters.

Location: Zhalauli (Kegen district, Almaty region). Seventh to sixth century B.C.

Credit: Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty

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Funerary portrait, detail. original post here DescriptionLimewood portrait of a woman: the richly bejeweled woman in the panel portrait is portrayed with elegance and sophistication, with sweet, refined features. The necklace inset with precious stones and diadem; the jewellery-detail in added gold leaf. AN299549001 © The Trustees of the British Museum

Funerary portrait, detail.

original post here

Description
Limewood portrait of a woman: the richly bejeweled woman in the panel portrait is portrayed with elegance and sophistication, with sweet, refined features. The necklace inset with precious stones and diadem; the jewellery-detail in added gold leaf.

AN299549001

© The Trustees of the British Museum

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DescriptionLimewood portrait of a woman: the richly bejeweled woman in the panel portrait is portrayed with elegance and sophistication, with sweet, refined features. The necklace inset with precious stones and diadem; the jewellery-detail in added gold leaf. detail here AN299549001 © The Trustees of the British Museum Department: Ancient Egypt & Sudan

Description
Limewood portrait of a woman: the richly bejeweled woman in the panel portrait is portrayed with elegance and sophistication, with sweet, refined features. The necklace inset with precious stones and diadem; the jewellery-detail in added gold leaf.

detail here

AN299549001

© The Trustees of the British Museum

Department: Ancient Egypt & Sudan

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