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Text, 30 mina duck-shaped weight

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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

30 mina duck-shaped weight
Genre:  770 B.C.

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Duck-shaped weight, 30 mina


Duck-shaped weight, 30 mina

30 mina duck-shaped weightThe inscription on this large 15 kg weight tells us it is from the palace...

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