Plaster Cast Of Cyrus Cylinder
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1976
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. State Department
label: Site Name
content: Babylon
notes: label: Notes
content: Cast of the Cyrus Cylinder with its presentation/storage box. The original Cyrus Cylinder or Cyrus Charter is a fired clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of Persia's Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great. It was discovered in Babylon in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in 1879. It had been placed as a foundation deposit following the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, when the Neo-Babylonian Empire was invaded by Cyrus and incorporated into his Persian Empire. The original cylinder is in the collections of the British Museum, # BM 90920, Registration 1880,0617.1941, and a translation of the text can be found on the British Museum website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=327188&partId=1 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Hillah, near, Babil Governorate (Babylon Province), Iraq / Iran, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 324274
label: USNM Number
content: A479209A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cast / Box