I am Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon … my great lord has established me in strength, and has urged me to repair his buildings … the Tower of Babylon, I have made and finished … the Tower of Borsippa had been built by a former king. Rawlinson (known as the father of Assyriology) translated the inscriptions as follows: And the wall cylinders had an interesting story to tell. Bricks were found around the site, having been stamped with the name of the king. This tower-a type of the famous Mesopotamian religious ziggurats-had been heavily repaired during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar. The cylinders, bearing parallel inscriptions, were found inserted into the walls of a massive, heavily damaged tower at the site.
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600 b.c.e., discovered by Sir Henry Rawlinson during the mid-19th century at the Babylonian site of Borsippa.
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The Birs Cylinders are a series of clay cylinders dating to c. A small handful of artifacts, however, help show an interesting link between Nebuchadnezzar and the biblical colossus. One thing Nebuchadnezzar isn’t generally known for, though, is a link with the tower of Babel-the attempt by Nimrod to build a tower up to heaven, dashed by God’s confounding of the languages (Genesis 11). There is even a possible reference to the Prophet Daniel’s three friends on one of Nebuchadnezzar’s clay tablets (see here for more information). Proof of his exploits, as described in the Bible, has been evidenced heavily in archaeology: his role as king of Babylon, his defeat of the Egyptian army, his repeat sieges of Jerusalem, his installation of a puppet king (Zedekiah), and his final destruction of Jerusalem c. He is particularly known for the destruction of Jerusalem in the sixth century b.c.e., and for his relationship with the Prophet Daniel. Nebuchadnezzar ii is one of the most infamous kings of the Bible.
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