11/9/2023 0 Comments Shamash and son forest fabric![]() ![]() However, it is evident that it is not simply a variant. Ball as far as the top of the third column when the cylinder was sold to America. In 1905, Stephen Langdon in his work on the building inscriptions of the neo-Babylonian Empire, mentions the stone cylinder of the British Museum adding: “A variant was copied by Mr. I had however proceeded far enough to secure many valuable illustrations of the two cylinders dealt with in the Proceedings of May, 1888.” This was only partly true. III, 35-my examination of the American cylinder was interrupted to my keen regret. I give the various readings and peculiar passage so far as I was allowed to ascertain them. ![]() 82-7-14, 1042-but in much better preservation. Ball, collecting all the known inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar the Great wrote in the Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology-April 2, 1889-” Last autumn (?) I had an opportunity of partially collating a fine cylinder of the same class-as a stone cylinder of the British Museum: A. ![]() It is one of the first pieces obtained for the Babylonian collections. Clark as part of a collection of 316 pieces and entered in the catalogue of the Babylonian Section of the Museum on July 21st of the same year under the No. It was bought in London on July 1, 1888, through the efforts of Mr. ![]() The history of this document since 1888 A.D. Its surface is covered with a cuneiform inscription in three columns of 96 lines each. Its height is about 26 centimeters and its diameters from left to right are 13 centimeters, 17 centimeters and 14.5 centimeters. It is slightly convex at the left and concave at the right end, with a small round hole at the left, large enough for a finger, and a large opening at the right end. “The scholar shall read all my deeds which I have described in this document and he shall understand the excellence of my gods.” by order by Nebuchadnezzar, the king, with a true regard for posterity, and buried into the foundation of a temple. The hollow barrel of clay of the University Museum is an original document, compiled probably shortly after 586 B.C. I have not seen it, and only report what the Chaldeans tell about it.” There was moreover in those days within the sacred area a statue of massive gold whose height was twelve cubits. on which only suckling lambs were sacrificed. Outside of the chapel is seen a gold altar. The whole according to the Chaldeans weighs 800 gold talents. Close to the statue there is a great gold table the throne and the dais are of the same metal. “In this temple of Babylon is another chapel down below, in which is seen a great gold statue representing a seated Jove. Or like that wonderful piece of news of the father of all reporters, Herodotus. “Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was three score cubits and the breadth thereof six cubits : He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.” (Book of Daniel, Chap. And yet its description of the gorgeous temples of Marduk and Nabû and of their splendid furniture, especially of their state boats adorned with gold and precious stones, is of great interest and strangely like the story of the prophet. One of the finest and for several reasons a unique document of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, has been preserved in the University Museum for over 35 years but never entirely deciphered. ![]()
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