cylinder
- Museum number
- 91125
- Description
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Clay cylinder, remains of an inscription of Nabonidus, 2 columns of inscription, 31 lines in each, Late Babylonian.
- Production date
- 556BC-539BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5.10 centimetres
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Length: 10.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The text is published, with variants taken from the duplicates KK. 1690, 1691, 1692 (qq.v.), pp. 286 ff.. Translations and explanations of it were given by Oppert, J., 1863. ‘Expédition scientifique en Mésopotamie exécutée par ordre du gouvernement de 1851 à 1854 par Mm. Fulgence Fresnel, Félix Thomas, et Jules Oppert’ vol. I. Paris : Imprimerie impériale, p. 262 f ; by Talbot, 'Journ. of the Roy. As. Soc.', XIX, 1861, pp. 193 ff.; and in S. Birch (ed.), 'Records of the Past : being English translations of the Assyrian and Monuments' V. London: Bagster, pp. 143 ff.; by Menant, J., 1875. ‘Babylone et la Chaldée’. Paris : Maisonneuve , p. 254; and by Teloni, B. 1887. ‘Crestomazia assira : con paradigmi grammaticali’. Florence : [Lit. O. Pieri], pp. 106 ff.
- Location
- On display (G55/dc7)
- Exhibition history
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2013 - 2014 22 June - 6 Jan, Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 'Mesopotamia, Inventing Our World'
2013: 30 Jan-13 May, Museum of History, Hong Kong, 'The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia'
2012: 4 May-7 Oct, Melbourne Museum, 'The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia'
2011 28 March-26 June, Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, 'Splendours of Mesopotamia'
2008-2009 13 Nov-15 Mar, BM, G35, 'Babylon: Myth and Reality'
Babylonian Room, table-case G
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 91125
- Registration number
- K.1689