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Title: Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Esarhaddon
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Date: ca. 680–669 BCE
Geography: Mesopotamia, Nineveh (?)
Culture: Assyrian
Medium: Clay
Dimensions: 3.07 x 1.5 x 1.61 in. (7.8 x 3.7 x 4.1 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, 1886
Accession Number: 86.11.55
“Nineveh: Capital of a World Empire,” Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands, October 20, 2017–March 25, 2018.
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