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Image: Detail of a stone monument of Shamash-shum-ukin as a basket-bearer. 668-655 BCE. From the temple of Nabu at Borsippa, Iraq and is currently housed in the British Museum

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Description: Detail of a stone monument of Shamash-shum-ukin. This Assyrian king of Babylon was depicted as a basket-bearer. The cuneiform inscriptions on the back have survived but the king's face was vandalized. 668-655 BCE. From the temple of Nabu at Borsippa, modern-day Iraq, and is currently housed in the British Museum [1]. The stone monument appears in the center, botttom row, in Display Case 3, Room 55.
Title: Detail of a stone monument of Shamash-shum-ukin as a basket-bearer. 668-655 BCE. From the temple of Nabu at Borsippa, Iraq and is currently housed in the British Museum
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