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Cylinder with Building Dedication in the Walters Art Museum, September 2009

Cylinder with Building Dedication in the Walters Art Museum, September 2009
Cylinder with Building Dedication

Creator: Babylonian (Artist)

Period: 604-562 BC (Neo-Babylonian)

Medium: baked clay (Ceramics)

Accession Number: 48.1800

Measurements: 9 1/16 x 5 1/8 in. (23 x 13 cm)

Geographies: Babylonia (in present-day Iraq) (Place of Origin)

In the first millennium BC, building dedications were written on cylinders with tapering ends, such as this, which were then concealed in walls. Here, the extensive text in three columns commemorates the rebuilding of the temple of the god Lugal-Marada at Marad by King Nebuchadnezzar II.

Text from: art.thewalters.org/detail/16469/cylinder-with-building-de...

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