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    A kudurru was a type of stone document used as a boundary stone and as a record of land grants to vassals by the Kassites and later dynasties in ancient...
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    Museum dates this kudurru to the period 1125-1100 BC. Eanna-shum-iddina kudurru Kudurru Kudurru Image Article of "Eanna-shum-iddina kudurru" British Museum...
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    death in the stampede to return home. A raid, or šiḫṭu, commemorated in a kudurru created during his reign describes a successful campaign. In this raid...
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    The Kudurru of Gula is a boundary stone (Kudurru) for the Babylonian goddess Gula. Gula is the goddess of healing. It is from the 14th - 13th century BC...
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    Asia portal The Nazimaruttash kudurru stone is a boundary stone (kudurru) of Nazimaruttaš, a Kassite king of Babylon, c. 1307–1282 BC (short chronology)...
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    Ḫunnubat-Nanaya kudurru Melišipak kudurru-Land grant to Marduk-apal-iddina I Land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru Land grant to [Me]li-Ḫala kudurru Estate of Takil-ana-ilīšu...
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    confirmation kudurru, in the National Museum of Iraq The Warwick (“Land grant to Iddin-Ninurta”) Kudurru, Warwickshire Museum Land purchase kudurru with a secondary...
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    The Kudurru of Kaštiliašu' is a fragment of an ancient Mesopotamian narû, or entitlement stele, recording the legal action taken by Kassite king Kaštiliašu...
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  • Marduk-apal-iddina II kudurru is a boundary stone (kudurru) of Marduk-apal-iddina II, who ruled Babylon from 722 BC - 710 BC. Some kudurrus are known for their...
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  • had sent a cohort commander to release Kudurru from his duties. This commander confirmed with Kudurru that Kudurru was an expert in scribal lore and together...
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  • far as to drag Kudurru's body through the streets of Uruk. Kudurru can be identified with Nebuchadnezzar (Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, "Kudurru" simply being a...
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    The Kudurrus of Isin (Babylonian Kingdom), king Marduk-nadin-ahhe, late 2nd millennium BC, c. 1099-1082 BC. The British Museum kudurru is a black limestone...
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  • Marduk-zakir-shumi I kudurru is a boundary stone (kudurru) of Marduk-zakir-šumi I, a king in the 9th dynasty of Babylon from 855 - 819 BC. The kudurru of Marduk-zakir-shumi...
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    Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru, the bēl pīḫati Land grant to Munnabittu kudurru Uzbi-Enlil kudurru Broken kudurru of Marduk-apla-iddina Adad-bēl-kala kudurru confirming...
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  • typically used by the Kassites. A number of seals have also been found. Kudurrus, stone stele used to record land grants and related documents, provide...
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  • Thumbnail for Kudurru for Šitti-Marduk
    The Kudurru for Šitti-Marduk is a white limestone boundary stone (Kudurru) of Nebuchadrezzar I, a king of the 2nd Dynasty of Isin, c. the late 12th century...
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    far as to drag Kudurru's body through the streets of Uruk. Kudurru can be identified with Nebuchadnezzar (Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, "Kudurru" simply being a...
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  • occupation from the Early Dynastic through the Neo-Babylonian periods. A Kudurru dated to the 13th year of Second Dynasty of Isin ruler Marduk-nadin-ahhe...
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    The Land grant to Ḫunnubat-Nanaya kudurru is an ancient Mesopotamian entitlement narû recording the gift of forty GUR (around a thousand acres) of uncultivated...
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    with dogs, and could be depicted alongside these animals, for example on kudurru (inscribed boundary stones), and receive figurines representing them as...
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  • Thumbnail for Land grant to Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru
    The Land grant to Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru is an ancient Mesopotamian narû, or entitlement stele, recording the gift (irīmšu) of 18 bur 2 eše (about...
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  • also spelled Nebuchadrezzar, and most commonly known under the nickname Kudurru, was a governor of the city Uruk in Babylonia under the rule of Ashurbanipal...
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  • Thumbnail for Land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru
    The land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru, is a four-sided limestone narû, or memorial stele, from the late 2nd millennium BC Mesopotamia recording the gift of...
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    V.S., "Astronomical Dating of the Kudurru IM 80908", Sumer, vol. 46, pp. 98–106, 1989–1990 Pizzimenti, "The Kudurrus And The Sky. Analysis And Interpretation...
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    and settled in the far southeast of Babylonia just after his reign. A kudurru or boundary stone from Sippar (pictured), in southern Iraq, records a legal...
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  • Thumbnail for Enlil-bānī land grant kudurru
    The Enlil-bānī land grant kudurru is an ancient Mesopotamian narû ša ḫaṣbi, or clay stele, recording the confirmation of a beneficial grant of land by...
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  • Thumbnail for Estate of Takil-ana-ilīšu kudurru
    The estate of Takil-ana-ilīšu kudurru is an ancient Mesopotamian white limestone narû, or entitlement stela, dating from the latter part of the Kassite...
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    Depiction of the star of Ishtar (left) on a kudurru of Meli-Shipak II (12th century BC)...
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    Land grant to Munnabittu kudurru is an elongated egg-shaped black limestone ancient Mesopotamian narû or entitlement stele (kudurru), 46.5 cm high and 20...
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    rule. A Lorestān bronze dagger is inscribed with his name and title. A kudurru records the outcome of an inquiry instigated by the king in his 4th year...
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