Nabonidus, Cyrus's deposed predecessor as king of Babylon, commissioned foundation texts on clay cylinders – such as the Cylinder of Nabonidus, also in the British Museum – that follows the same basic formula.
At the end of the First World War, there were two to three million ex-prisoners of war from various nations dispersed throughout Russia; within two years of the commission's foundation, it had helped 425,000 of them return home.
The reforms of the last decade have created bodies ranging from family doctor commissioning groups, foundation hospital trusts which run their own affairs and Monitor, the powerful standards regulator.
The danger for Mr Barroso is that he will be seen as unsuccessful, even if his commission lays the foundation of greater legitimacy for those still to come.
As in past years the foundation commissioned a report, The European Art Market in 2002, a Survey.
Mr. Rainaldi, the artist, was chosen because he had worked on several ecclesiastical commissions, and the foundation was confident that he could interpret the pope's spirit.
The foundation commissioned a study three years ago, when the Philadelphia papers were passing out of Knight Ridder's control and some prospective buyers seemed likely to make drastic cuts.
Bono's ONE foundation commissioned Hruska to make a batch of sweaters to gift to board members (that's how Connie Britton got hers).
YouGovStone research commissioned by my foundation last year showed that 51 per cent of 14-19 year olds want to be their own boss, and 44 per cent think the best time to start up a business is in your twenties.
In 2000 her foundation commissioned Libby Larsen's elegant song cycle "Try Me, Good King," set to the final letters and gallows speeches of Henry VIII's doomed wives and incorporating quotations and transmutations of 16th-century lute music.
Its star attraction is a prized Rubens — "The Martyrdom of St. Andrew" — that was commissioned by the foundation directly from the artist in 1635 and has rarely been allowed to travel.
