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<p>[QUOTE="Magnus Maximus, post: 4871562, member: 73473"]That’s a good question.</p><p>According to livus.org “The script of this cylinder is deliberately archaising. It is inscribed in archaic ceremonial <a href="https://www.livius.org/articles/place/babylonia/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livius.org/articles/place/babylonia/" rel="nofollow">Babylonian</a> cuneiform script that was used in the well-known Codex of Hammurabi and adopted in a number of royal inscriptions of Neo-Babylonian kings, esp. <a href="https://www.livius.org/articles/person/nabopolassar/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livius.org/articles/person/nabopolassar/" rel="nofollow">Nabopolassar</a>, but also <a href="https://www.livius.org/articles/person/nebuchadnezzar-ii/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livius.org/articles/person/nebuchadnezzar-ii/" rel="nofollow">Nebuchadnezzar</a> and <a href="https://www.livius.org/articles/person/nabonidus/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livius.org/articles/person/nabonidus/" rel="nofollow">Nabonidus</a>. The script is quite different from the cuneiform script that was used for <a href="https://www.livius.org/sources/about/mesopotamian-chronicles/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livius.org/sources/about/mesopotamian-chronicles/" rel="nofollow">chronicles</a>, <a href="https://www.livius.org/articles/concept/astronomical-diaries/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livius.org/articles/concept/astronomical-diaries/" rel="nofollow">diaries</a>, rituals, scientific and administrative texts.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Magnus Maximus, post: 4871562, member: 73473"]That’s a good question. According to livus.org “The script of this cylinder is deliberately archaising. It is inscribed in archaic ceremonial [URL='https://www.livius.org/articles/place/babylonia/']Babylonian[/URL] cuneiform script that was used in the well-known Codex of Hammurabi and adopted in a number of royal inscriptions of Neo-Babylonian kings, esp. [URL='https://www.livius.org/articles/person/nabopolassar/']Nabopolassar[/URL], but also [URL='https://www.livius.org/articles/person/nebuchadnezzar-ii/']Nebuchadnezzar[/URL] and [URL='https://www.livius.org/articles/person/nabonidus/']Nabonidus[/URL]. The script is quite different from the cuneiform script that was used for [URL='https://www.livius.org/sources/about/mesopotamian-chronicles/']chronicles[/URL], [URL='https://www.livius.org/articles/concept/astronomical-diaries/']diaries[/URL], rituals, scientific and administrative texts.”[/QUOTE]
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