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    1. MunakataSennin on

      [Museum](https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/foundation-record-bearing-a-victory-inscription-by-king-sennacherib-of-assyria-unknown/SAE0EutMxBURWg). In this inscription, King Sennacherib of Assyria boasts of several military campaigns, among these the war against Judah:

      “And Hezekiah, King of Judah, who did not submit to my yoke, I laid siege to 46 of his strong cities, walled forts, and to the countless small villages in their vicinity . . . I besieged them and conquered them.” He describes the booty he seized and the numbers of captives he took – more than 200,000. Of the siege on King Hezekiah in Jerusalem he writes, “I made him a prisoner, like a bird in a cage.” Though Jerusalem was not destroyed, Hezekiah was forced to resume paying heavy tribute to Assyria.

    2. The-Lizard-Emperor on

      Did they store these by putting them in poles?

      I am guessing because of the shape

    3. YoungQuixote on

      Oh yeah.
      I can imagine doing my homework on one of these circa. 600 BC…..

      ⌛️🔄🌅🐪

      Act 1, Scene 1.

      Ziggurat elementary school.

      Me: Whoops….weird ….i dropped my cylinder when dad was driving me to school on his work chariot this morning.
      He took a sharp bend on Ur street😭

      Teacher: Sweet Giglamesh😵… give me strength!

      That took me FOREVER to carve!?!?!

      No excursion to the Indus Valley for you… and forget all about Pyramid camp next year.

      Sumer time over !
      Cry me a Tigris.

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