The Cyrus Cylinder, or Cyrus' Charter of Human Rights, is a clay tablet inscribed in 538 BC by order of Cyrus the Great, the Achaemenid king and founder of the Achaemenid Empire. The first half of the tablet is written in the language of Babylon ...
The Cyrus Cylinder, or Cyrus' Charter of Human Rights, is a clay tablet inscribed in 538 BC by order of Cyrus the Great, the Achaemenid king and founder of the Achaemenid Empire. The first half of the tablet is written in the language of Babylonian chroniclers, and the last half contains Cyrus' words and orders in the Akkadian language and cuneiform script. The cylinder was found in the Akkadian sanctuary of Esgyla in the ancient city of Babylon in 1258 AD and is kept in the British Museum in London. In the present study, the text of the inscription was first completely translated from the Akkadian original and then researched Cyrus' religious policy by citing cuneiform sources, Hebrew narratives of the Old Testament, and Greek sources.
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