• ...ì-nu-um ᵈAMAR.UTU be-lí ra-bí-ù (...When the god Marduk, the great lord)
  𒊭 𒄑𒀀𒋗𒄷 𒀸𒁖𒅗𒀭𒋗

Publisher:

• Princeton University. Library. Special Collections

Extent:

• 1 item

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

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• https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0848_c000001283

Curator's notes:

• Nabū-kudurrī-uṣur (Nebuchadnezzar II) (rexit 605/604–562 BCE)

  Akkadian
  Wānah wa Sadūm (Marad), 6th century BCE, clay cylinder

  Cuneiform texts were formed by impressing signs on clay tablets using a reed stylus. They were in use for several languages for three millennia before dying out; they were deciphered in the 19th century. This cylinder commemorates the building of a temple dedicated to Lugal-Marada (Ninurta), in Marad, Iraq. As the inscription explains, during these works Nebuchadnezzar II rediscovered a foundation laid by the Narām-Sīn (third millennium BCE). The cylinder was probably used as a decorative element.

  Bequest of William H. Scheide ’36, 2015
  Scheide MC 94 (=1110)

  For further reading

  Oracc: RIBo Royal Inscriptions of Babylonia online. “Nebuchadnezzar II 105.” Accessed May 20, 2025. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/Q005576

Exhibit category:

• Other forms, other materials
• Other forms, other materials: Other forms