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Duck-shaped weight, 30 mina

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30 mina duck-shaped weight

The inscription on this large 15 kg weight tells us it is from the palace of Eriba-Marduk, King of Babylon, but it was excavated in the city of Nimrud in northern Iraq. It had probably been looted from Babylon to the Assyrian capital.

Reign of Eriba-Marduk, about 770 B.C.

From Nimrud, northern Iraq

Supplementary images:

30 mina duck-shaped weight
Taken on  Sunday 16th of August 2015
Device: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
Model: SP800UZ
Genre:  770 B.C.
Source:  London, United Kingdom
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