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FRAGMENTARY CLAY FOUNDATION CYLINDER
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153
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FRAGMENTARY CLAY FOUNDATION CYLINDER
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €5,000
Voluntary lot
Description
FRAGMENTARY CLAY FOUNDATION CYLINDER
Neo-Babylonian art, Second Dynasty of Isin, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, 604–562 BC.
Fragment of a barrel, originally biconical in shape, engraved with three columns of cuneiform inscriptions recounting the foundation of a surrounding wall of the E-meslam temple dedicated to Nergal, the tutelary god of the city of Kutha.
Fractured and with missing sections; one fragment has broken away.
Dimensions: 15 x 11.5 cm
Provenance: Former Belgian collection from the 1960s
Galerie Drees Archeo, Brussels, 2006
Private collection, Paris
Bibliography: ARNAUD, Daniel, ‘Documents with “historical” content, from the pre-Sargonic period to the 6th century’, in *Aula Orientalis* 25, 2007, pp. 62–68
A Neo-Babylonian clay cuneiform foundation cylinder,
Reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, 604–562 BC
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