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Title: Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the rebuilding of the temple of the mother-goddess Ninmah/Belet-ili at Babylon
Period: Neo-Babylonian
Date: ca. 604–562 BC
Geography: Mesopotamia, Babylon (?) (modern Hillah)
Culture: Babylonian
Medium: Clay
Dimensions: 4.37 x 2.09 in. (11.1 x 5.3 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, 1879
Accession Number: 79.7.2
“Mesopotamia: Great Cultural Innovations, Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, July 22, 2022–September 29, 2024.
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