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The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written an Achaemenid royal inscription in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Persian king Cyrus the Great. [2] [3] It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon (now in modern Iraq ...
The Cyrus cylinder, a contemporary cuneiform script proclaiming Cyrus as legitimate king of Babylon. One of the few surviving sources of information that can be dated directly to Cyrus's time is the Cyrus Cylinder (Persian: استوانه کوروش), a document in the form of a clay cylinder inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform.
In it was displayed the Cyrus Cylinder, which the Shah promoted as "the first human rights charter in history". [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The cylinder was also the official symbol of the celebrations, and the Shah's first speech at Cyrus' tomb praised the freedom that it had proclaimed, two and a half millennia previously.
The Antiochus Cylinder is the last known Akkadian-language royal inscription, separated from the last known previous one (the Cyrus Cylinder) by 300 years. At the time it was made, Akkadian was no longer a spoken language and the cylinder's contents were likely inspired by earlier royal inscriptions by Assyrian and Babylonian kings. [57]
The year 539 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 215 Ab urbe condita.The denomination 539 BC for this year has been used since the early-medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
The Cyrus Cylinder and the roughly contemporary Verse Account of Nabonidus attribute Nabonidus's failure to the desire of the god Marduk to punish a regime that had opposed his will. The strongly anti-Nabonidus tone of these documents, which accused the former king of behaving capriciously and neglecting the worship of the gods, suggests that ...
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 ...
A cake in the shape of the Cyrus Cylinder and a cake in the shape of the Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae Cyrus the Great Day ( Persian : روز کوروش بزرگ ruz-e kuroš-e bozorg ), also simply known as Cyrus Day ( Persian :روز کوروش ruz-e kuroš ), is an unofficial holiday in Iran that takes place annually on October 29, 7 of Aban ...