Two cuneiform-inscribed cylinders, discovered over a decade ago at Tell Al-Uhaimir, were recently published, and they detail Nebuchadnezzar’s restoration of the ziggurat of the city’s chief god of war, Zababa, and that of the goddess Ishtar. Tell Al-Uhaimir, the site of the ancient city of Kish, is located approximately 60 miles (97 km) south of Baghdad in modern-day Iraq. The two barrel-shaped cylinders, each approximately the size of a soda can, were discovered on the surface of the tell in 2013 by local residents, who turned them over to the authorities; the translations of their inscriptions were recently published in the journal Iraq. In the inscriptions, Nebuchadnezzar describes how he rebuilt a collapsed part of the temple of Zababa and “embellished its outward appearance and made (it shine) like the daylight.”
Source: https://doi.org/10.1017/irq.2025.10023
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