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For the Neo-Babylonian kings, war was a means to obtain tribute, plunder (in particular sought after materials such as various metals and quality wood) and prisoners of war which could be put to work as slaves in the temples. Like their predecessors, the Assyrians, the Neo-Babylonian kings also used deportation as a means of control.
Over the years [the Queen of the Night] has indeed grown better and better, and more and more interesting. For me she is a real work of art of the Old Babylonian period." In 2008/9 the relief was included in exhibitions on Babylon at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, the Louvre in Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [44]
The Nabonidus Chronicle is an ancient Babylonian text, part of a larger series of Babylonian Chronicles inscribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets.It deals primarily with the reign of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, covers the conquest of Babylon by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, and ends with the start of the reign of Cyrus's son Cambyses II, spanning a period ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art Sections of the Processional Way in the Pergamon Museum , Berlin The Panel with striding lion (MA 31.13.1) is a panel of Neo-Babylonian glazed ceramic bricks or tiles dated to 604–562 B.C., now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York.
She used the museum pieces to explain the history of the area and to interpret material aspects of her dynasty's heritage. [8] Some of these artifacts were: A kudurru, Kassite boundary marker (carved with a snake and emblems of various gods). Part of a statue of King Shulgi; A clay cone that had been part of a building at Larsa. [3]
The Neo-Babylonian Empire ended with the conquest of Babylon by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, in 539 BC. The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder written in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of Cyrus, made to be used as a foundation deposit and buried in the walls of Babylon. [ 35 ]
The arrangement of Babylonian regions in the Unger Prism corresponds to those mentioned in Ezekiel 23. [28] It describes the building of a royal palace in Babylon and includes a list of Babylonian court officials [3] The Unger Prism is the only extant source which describes the upper administrative structure of the Babylonian state. [10]
The work is particularly difficult to interpret due to the extensive use of graphemes, but included an estimated 8,000 omens. [2]: 620 These were the accumulation of a millennium and a half of observations of political, social and private events and the divinatory signs that accompanied them but bereft of their chronological context or other identifying marker and stylistically posed in the ...