Cyrus Cylinder

leila.hCyrus Takes Babylon, 539 BCE

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The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written an Achaemenid royal inscription in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Persian king Cyrus the Great.

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The cylinder portrays Marduk as choosing Cyrus to rule Babylon; this is…
The cylinder portrays Marduk as choosing Cyrus to rule Babylon; this is royal legitimation rather than a neutral account.
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The cylinder identifies Esagila as Marduk’s sanctuary in Babylon and presents Cyrus’s…
The cylinder identifies Esagila as Marduk’s sanctuary in Babylon and presents Cyrus’s rule in relation to the Babylonian cult.
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Rassam’s excavations in Babylon discovered the Cyrus…
Rassam’s excavations in Babylon discovered the Cyrus Cylinder in 1879.
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Cyrus Cylinder: people, places, and context for the episode.
The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written an Achaemenid royal inscription in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Persian king Cyrus the Great.
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