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Part of the propaganda issued by both the Marduk priesthood and Cyrus is the story of Nabonidus taking the most important [[cult]]ic [[statue]]s from southern [[Mesopotamia]] [[hostage]] in Babylon. This seems to be correct: a great number of contemporary inscriptions shows that these statues and their cultic personnel were indeed brought to Babylon just before the Persian attack:
