Scarce Neo-Babylonian clay cuneiform Foundation cylinder
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Ceramics: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1491838
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Ceramics: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1491838
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A finely preserved small inscribed foundation cylinder, Neo-Babylonian Empire, c. 8th-6th. century BC.
The barrel shaped piece fully inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform. Untranslated but such cylinders usually has been attributed to Nebucadnezzar II, 604-562 B.C. They were stuck into buidings walls and is often long texts with praises to the builder and the gods, usually a king, just like foundation bricks.
Size: 60 mm. long and c. 25-26 mm. thick.
Condition: Good very fine, completely intact but for a small chip at the top, not affecting the inscription. With a fine patina with encrustations and hard uncleaned deposits.
Ex. Cristian Spinu collection, London antiques market.
The barrel shaped piece fully inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform. Untranslated but such cylinders usually has been attributed to Nebucadnezzar II, 604-562 B.C. They were stuck into buidings walls and is often long texts with praises to the builder and the gods, usually a king, just like foundation bricks.
Size: 60 mm. long and c. 25-26 mm. thick.
Condition: Good very fine, completely intact but for a small chip at the top, not affecting the inscription. With a fine patina with encrustations and hard uncleaned deposits.
Ex. Cristian Spinu collection, London antiques market.
