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Cyrus Cylinder

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by kourosh e kabir
published on 26 April 2012

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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