Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Ashurbanipal describing restorations of the city wall and gates at Borsippa

c. 668–627 BC · Assyria

Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Ashurbanipal describing restorations of the city wall and gates at Borsippa, from Assyria, dated c. 668–627 BC. It was found at Babylon. Today it is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Date

c. 668–627 BC

Civilization

Assyria

Found at

Babylon

Where it is today

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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