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| | The Schoyen Collection:2. History--2.2 Babylonian history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | MS 1686 Babylonia, 1813-1812 BC Babylonia, 1792-1750 BC Syria, 1250-1240 BC Babylon, 604-562 BC MS in Old Babylonian with a few names in Sumerian on clay, Isin, Babylonia, 1813 or 1812 BC, 1 tablet, 5,6x3,9x2,0 cm, 21 lines in Old Babylonian cuneiform script. |
 | | MS in Akkadian on clay, Carchemish, Syria, 1250-1240 BC, 1 tablet, 8,2x10,2x3,2 cm, single column, 15+5 lines in cuneiform script, with seal impression rolled across the whole of the tablet, showing the deity Sharruma advancing left, holding a double axe and a sceptre. |
 | | Babylon with the ziggurat was captured by Kyros 538 BC (who pulled down the 3 stair ramps so the tower could not be used as a fortress), Dareios I 519 BC, Xerxes ca. |
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