Cyrus Cylinder, The : The Great Persian Edict from Babylon
Irving. Finkel
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | London : : I.B.Tauris, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (246 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Author's biography; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Preface - JONATHAN TUBB; Introduction - IRVING FINKEL; CHAPTER 1: The Cyrus Cylinder: the Babylonian perspective - IRVING FINKEL; CHAPTER 2: The Cyrus Cylinder: discovery - JONATHAN TAYLOR; CHAPTER 3: The Cyrus Cylinder: display and replica - ST JOHN SIMPSON; CHAPTER 4: The Cyrus Cylinder: the creation of an icon and its loan to Tehran - JOHN CURTIS; CHAPTER 5: The Cyrus Cylinder: a Persian perspective - SHAHROKH RAZMJOU; Afterword - IRVING FINKEL. - APPENDIX: Transliteration of the Cyrus Cylinder text- IRVING FINKEL REFERENCES. - Some historical artifacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unearthing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, stands in the same tradition of game-changing discoveries from antiquity as Hammurabi's famous law code or the intact tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamen. For the Cyrus Cylinder contains in microcosm the whole history of its period. Inscribed with an account of the conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE by the Persian King, it records an event which launched one of the greater
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| ISBN | 0-85773-349-4
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