EditorialDemonstration on how to remove the cylinder from a gun like the one used in the Rust shooting during testimony in Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s involuntary manslaughter trial at the First Judicial District Courthouse in Santa Fe
EditorialCylinder seal and imprint, first Babylonian dynasty, 18th-16th BCE. A man (bull-man?) offers a goat to a diety; a goddess in adoration. Haematite, H: 2,2 cm AO 6248.
EditorialCuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the construction of the outer city wall of Babylon, Neo-Babylonian, ca. 604?562 B.C., Mesopotamia, Babylon (?), Babylonian, Clay, 48.62 x 2.75 x 2.87 in. (12.35 x 7 x 7.3 cm), Clay-Tablets...
EditorialCylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II, southern Iraq, Neo-Babylonian dynasty, 604-562 BCE. The cuneiform text describes the three palaces which Nebuchadnezzar built for himself in Babylon. The first palace was a rebuilding of the palace used by his father Nabo...
EditorialStone mould, Old Babylonian Period from Ninveh, northern Iraq, 18th BCE. The mould shows a bearded god wearing a high hat and a goddess with an elaborate necklace. Both deities wear a flounced garment often depicted on cylinder seals. The dowel holes a...
EditorialCyrus Cylinder, Babylonian, from Babylon, 539-530 BCE. An account by Cyrus, King of Persia, of his conquest of Babylon and the capture of Nabonidus, the last Babylonian king. Cyrus (559-530 BCE) describes measures of relief brought to the inhabitants o...
EditorialCylinder of Cyrus the Great with text written in akkadian cuneiform. Clay. Describes the conquest of Babylon in 539 BC and the capture of King Nabonidus by Cyrus the Great, king of Persia (559-530 BC). British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialCylinder seal and imrpint, Syro-Hittite, 12th BCE. Deity standing on a bull facing another deity on a horse-like animal. From Northern Syria. Haematite, AO 558.
EditorialA George III-style inlaid mahogany cylinder writing desk from Joan Didion’s estate sale auction hosted by Stair Galleries, in Hudson, N.Y., Oct. 18, 2022. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)