MAKE A MEME View Large Image Babylonian - Cylinder with Building Dedication - Walters 481800 - View A.jpg In the first millennium BC building dedications were written on cylinders with tapering ends such as this which were then concealed in walls Here the extensive ...
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Keywords: Babylonian - Cylinder with Building Dedication - Walters 481800 - View A.jpg In the first millennium BC building dedications were written on cylinders with tapering ends such as this which were then concealed in walls Here the extensive text in three columns commemorates the rebuilding of the temple of the god Lugal-Marada at Marad by King Nebuchadnezzar II between 604 562 BC Neo-Babylonian baked clay cm 23 13 accession number 48 1800 16469 Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Joseph Brummer New York 1941 Walters Art Museum 1941 by purchase Museum purchase 1941 Inscription commemorates the rebuilding of the temple of the god Lugal-Marada at Marad by King Nebuchadnezzar II place of origin Babylonia in present-day Iraq Walters Art Museum license Cylinder seals in the Walters Art Museum Babylon Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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