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Terracotta cylinders describing Nebuchadnezzar's building works

British Museum London

 

Terracotta cylinders describing Nebuchadnezzar's building works

 

Reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, 605 - 562 BC

From Babylon, southern Iraq

 

These cylinders commemorate the ambitious building programme Nebuchadnezzar undertook throughout Babylonia. In Babylon itself he repaired his father's palace, and the city's temples, shrines, quays and gates.

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