Book Minute_ Nebuchadnezzar’s Inscription
The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar is mentioned several times in the Bible,
including his dramatic story of repentance in the book of Daniel, chapter 4.
An unusual artifact at Museum of the Bible,
a small barrel-shaped clay cylinder inscribed with cuneiform text
confirms Nebuchadnezzar's role in one of the major public works projects of the
6th century BC.
Following a long-established Mesopotamian practice,
dozens of these four-and-a-half-inch long cylinders
were inserted into small niches in the wall of Babylon
being built along the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
Nebuchadnezzar boasted,
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