Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nabonidus describing work on Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash, at Sippar

c. 555–539 BC · Babylon

Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nabonidus describing work on Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash, at Sippar, from Babylonia, dated c. 555–539 BC. It was found at Sippar. Today it is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Date

c. 555–539 BC

Civilization

Babylon

Found at

Sippar

Where it is today

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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