Item Details

Item No. 13021

This extraordinary sculpture is a replica of the original cylinder as it can be seen today, including the decay from age and erosion.  You can use it as a paperweight or just as an attractive art object in your home or office. It is a single piece; the cylinder cannot be separated from the stand.

Dimensions: 3.75" wide, 1.25" depth and 2.75" tall (9 x 3 x 7 cm).

his hieroglyphic scroll is the original scroll of Cyrus The Great (Kourosh), who established the first Declaration of Human Rights Charter the world had ever known around 550 BC. A replica is also on display at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. This recounts the famous decree that allows the Jews to return to Jerusalem.

Here are a few of the words from the inscription:

The worship of Marduk, the king of the gods, he [Nabonidus] changed into abomination. Daily he used to do evil against his city [Babylon] ... He [Marduk] scanned and looked [through] all the countries, searching for a righteous ruler willing to lead [him] [in the annual procession]. [Then] he pronounced the name of Cyrus, king of Anshan, declared him to be[come) the ruler of all the world ... I am Cyrus, king of the world, great king, legitimate king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four rims [of the earth], son of Cambyses, great king, king of Anshan, grandson of Cyrus, great king, king of Anshan, descendant of Teispes, great king, king of Anshan, of a family [which] always [exercised] kingship; whose rule Bel [Marduk] and Nebo love, whom they want as king to please their hearts ... I did not allow anybody to terrorize [any place] of the [country of Sumer] and Akkad. I strove for peace in Babylon and in all his [other] sacred cities. As to the inhabitants of Babylon ... I abolished forced labour ... From Nineveh, Assur and Susa, Akkad, Eshnunna, Zamban, Me-Turnu and Der until the region of Gutium, I returned to these sacred cities on the other side of the Tigris, the sanctuaries of which have been ruins for a long time, the images which [used] to live therein and established for them permanent sanctuaries. I [also] gathered all their [former] inhabitants and returned [to them] their habitations.

Dimensions:  Base 11 cm x 5 cm x 3 cm (approx. 4.25" x 2" x 1.25"); Scroll 10 cm x 3 cm x 3 cm (approx. 4" x 1.25" x 1.25"). Shipping weight 1.80 pounds.