Rassam cylinder

Rassam cylinder
Rassam cylinder of Ashurbanipal. A 10-sided prism and the most complete of the chronicles of Ashurbanipal. Nineveh, 643 BCE. British Museum.[1]
Created643 BCE
DiscoveredNineveh
36°21′34″N 43°09′10″E / 36.359444°N 43.152778°E / 36.359444; 43.152778
Present locationBritish Museum, London
RegistrationBM 91026
"Assurbanipal King of Assyria"
an-szar2-du3-a man kur_ an-szar2{ki}
in the Rassam cylinder, 643 BCE.[2]
Assyrian siege of an Egyptian fort, probably a scene from the war in 667 BCE. Sculpted in 645 – 635 BCE, under Ashurbanipal. British Museum.[3]

The Rassam cylinder is a cuneiform cylinder, forming a prism with ten faces, written by Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in 643 BCE. The 7th century BCE cylinder was discovered in the North Palace of Nineveh by Hormuzd Rassam in 1854, hence its name. It is located in the British Museum.[4][1]

  1. ^ a b "Rassam cylinder British Museum". The British Museum.
  2. ^ For the original inscription: Rawlinson, H.C. Cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia (PDF). p. 3, column 2, line 98. For the transliteration: "CDLI-Archival View". cdli.ucla.edu. For the translation: Luckenbill, David. Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia Volume II (PDF). p. 297.
  3. ^ "Wall panel; relief British Museum". The British Museum.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference DDL was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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