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Visual depiction of Cyrus the Great

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Vol. V · Deified Humans

Cyrus the Great

Persian king of kings whom Hebrew scripture anointed as God's chosen liberator


his Cyrus Cylinder freeing the Babylonian captives as the divine word commands

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This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.