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  2. Cyrus Cylinder - Wikipedia

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    The British Museum's ownership of the Cyrus Cylinder has been the cause of some controversy in Iran, although the artifact was obtained legally and was not excavated on Iranian soil but on former Ottoman territory (modern Iraq). When it was loaned in 1971, the Iranian press campaigned for its transfer to Iranian ownership.

  3. Cylinders of Nabonidus - Wikipedia

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    This cylinder, excavated in the royal palace, is now in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. A copy is in the British Museum in London. The text was written after Nabonidus' return from Arabia in his thirteenth regnal year, but before war broke out with the Persian king Cyrus the Great, who is mentioned as an instrument of the gods.

  4. List of inscriptions in biblical archaeology - Wikipedia

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    Cylinder of Cyrus: British Museum: 1879, Babylon: c.530 BC: Akkadian cuneiform: King Cyrus's treatment of religion, which is significant to the books of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah. COS 2.124 / ANET 315–316 Nabonidus Chronicle: British Museum: 1879 (acquired), Sippar, unprovenanced: 4th –1st century BC [18] Akkadian cuneiform

  5. British Museum - Wikipedia

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    The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. ... Ancient Iran with the Cyrus Cylinder, ...

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    Global Data Center Services Provider CyrusOne Sponsors The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia Exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Leadership principles set forth by King Cyrus served as ...

  7. Nabonidus Chronicle - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Wilfred G. Lambert - Wikipedia

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    After retirement, he worked with the Museum on their Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals Project, dealing with the inscriptions on the seals. [2] In January 2010, Professor Lambert and Irving Finkel identified pieces from a cuneiform tablet that was inscribed with the same text as the Cyrus Cylinder. [3]

  9. Neil MacGregor - Wikipedia

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    From September 2010 to January 2011 the British Museum lent the ancient Persian Cyrus Cylinder to an exhibition in Tehran, Iran. This was seen by at least a million visitors on the Museum's estimation, more than any loan exhibition to the United Kingdom had attracted since the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972. [9]