Not just another brick in the wall: a Babylonian memento emerges at Essex auction

This 13 x 13in (33 x 33cm) brick is from the walls of Babylon and dates from 604-562BC.

Six lines of cuneiform text are impressed into one face of the clay reading: Nebuchadnezzar, king …

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