Cyrus Cylinder

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by kourosh e kabir
published on 26 April 2012

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The Cyrus Cylinder, dating from 539 BC. This document is a propaganda one of Cyrus II in order to show his legitimacy to rule in Babylonia.

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Original image by kourosh e kabir. Uploaded by Antoine Simonin, published on 26 April 2012 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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kabir, K. E. (2012, April 26). Cyrus Cylinder. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/216/cyrus-cylinder/

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