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The Cylinders of Nabonidus refers to cuneiform inscriptions of king Nabonidus of Babylonia (556-539 BC). These inscriptions were made on clay cylinders. They include the Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar, and the Nabonidus Cylinders from Ur, four in number.
Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar: foundation text in which king Nabonidus of Babylonia (r.556-539) describes how he repaired three temples in Harran and Sippar. The Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar. In the Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar, a foundation text buried in the foundation of a building, Babylonian king Nabonidus (r. 556-539) describes how ...
Clay cylinder, remains of an inscription of Nabonidus, 2 columns of inscription, 31 lines in each, Late Babylonian.
Nabonidus (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-naʾid, meaning "May Nabu be exalted" or "Nabu is praised") was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 556 BC to the fall of Babylon to the Achaemenian Empire under Cyrus the Great in 539 BC.
Description. Fired clay foundation cylinder of Nabonidus; records the pious reconstruction of temples to the Moon god at Harran and to the sun god and the goddess Anunitum at Sippar; during the work at Sippar, inscriptions of the older kings Naram Sin and Shagarakti Shuriash were discovered, and Nabonidus offers dates for them considerably ...
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The Nabonidus Cylinder from Ur is a foundation text in which king Nabonidus of Babylonia (r.556-539) describes how he repaired the ziggurat called E-lugal-galga-sisa, which belonged to the temple of Sin in Ur, called Egišnugal.
Mar 4, 2024 · Recorded in a text called the Nabonidus Cylinder of Sippar, Nabonidus tells how he set about restoring several temples during his reign, including the Ehulhul of Sin in Haran, the Ebabbar of Shamash in Sippar, and the Eulmash of Anunitum in Sippar-Amnanum.
