![]() Just as it recalls the construction of a ziggurat”, imposing stepped building in the Nimrod region, Laith Majid Hussein also told AFP. The tablet “bears the titles of King Shalmaneser III and those of his father Ashurnasirpal II and his grandfather. ![]() “Its cuneiform text has been fully preserved“, rejoiced the minister. Small in size, the archaeological piece is no less important, said Fakak al-Badrani. The director of the Iraqi Council of Antiquities and Heritage, Laith Majid Hussein, mentioned that the tablet “came to Italy in the 1980s”. “Perhaps during archaeological excavations or during the work of the Mosul dam”, he said. Iraqi Culture Minister Ahmed Fakak al-Badrani acknowledged that the circumstances in which the tablet was discovered remained unclear. The object was recently seized by the Carabinieri, after which the Italian authorities returned the coin to Abdel Latif Rachid during a visit by the Iraqi president to Bologna on 14 June. The circumstances of the arrival in Italy of the tablet of King Shalmaneser remain obscure. Read also Remarkable Bronze Age sword discovered in Bavaria This restitution comes at a time when Iraq is intensifying its efforts to recover from foreign countries the antiquities looted from the many archaeological sites that punctuate its territory. ![]() “I want to thank Italian officials for their efforts and cooperation in bringing this piece back”welcomed the Iraqi President on Sunday Abdel Latif Rachidbefore transmitting the tablet at the Baghdad National Museum. ![]() The tablet bears the insignia of Shalmaneser III, King yrian who ruled the region of Nimrod in northern Mesopotamia from 858 to 823 BCE. Iraq unveiled on Sunday a cuneiform tablet almost 2800 years old, and just returned by Italy, during a ceremony organized in a presidential palace in Baghdad. ![]()
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