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A clay cylinder that has been identified as Nebuchadnezzar’s was found around the ancient ruins of Babylon. The clay cylinder is around twenty-four centimeters in length and eleven centimeters in diameter. It was found and removed by Robert Koldeway in the early 1900s and is now displayed in a museum. This cylinder deeply describes the three palaces Nebuchadnezzar built for just himself. The first palace was a rebuilding of the palace used by his father Nabopolassar , which Nebuchadnezzar says had become dilapidated. When he had finished, he decided that it was not good enough, so he built himself a new palace on the northern edge of Babylon. This palace had a blue parapet and was surrounded by massive fortification walls. A parapet is a low
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