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Surroundings:

Stele of Marduk-apla-iddina ISusa, Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyleSusa, Early Elamite inscriptionSusa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed relief of two soldiers (Susa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed lions' reliefSusa, Elamite maceSusa, CupSusa, Archaeologists' castleSusa, Brick with part of inscription DSf of DariusSusa, Model of a workshopSusa, Dynastic Temple of the Šutrukids, InscriptionSusa, Parthian bottleSusa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed relief of four soldiers (Susa, Figurine of BacchusSusa, Stone tablet with cuneiform inscription DSfSusa, Achaemenid rhythonSusa, Elamite necklaceSusa, Early Elamite pot with a fish and a waderSusa, AcropolisSusa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed relief of an eye of a soldier (Susa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed lions' reliefSusa, Early Elamite axeSusa, Portrait of a MuseSusa, Middle-Elamite inscription of Shilhak-InshushinakSusa, Awan King ListSusa, Brick with part of inscription DSa of DariusSusa, Statue of queen Napirasu, wife of Untaš-NapirišaSusa, Dynastic Temple of the Šutrukids, Relief of the godsSusa, Hellenistic figurine from the Parthian ageSusa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed relief of a soldier (

Location:

  • Iran (Islamic Republic of), Shūsh
  • geo:32.188301,48.248318
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -11xx / unknown

Class:

  • Milestone
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=23463

Annotations

The Stele of Meli-Shipak/Meli-Sihu was unearted at Susa between 1900 and 1904 by Jacques de Morganm chief of the French excavation team. The preserved stela is a fragment of the lower part of a large rectangular stone edifice engraved with reliefs and the remains of Akkadian and Elamite inscriptions.

See:

  1. Kathryn E. Slanski ,The Babylonian Entitlement narûs (kudurrus): A Study in Their Form and Function. ASOR 2003, pp. 194–196.
  2. J. A. Brinkman, Meli-Šipak". Materials and Studies for Kassite History, Vol. I (MSKH I). Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 1976, p. 258

Relevant museums

Susa, Archaeological Museum

Susa, Archaeological Museum

Tehran, National Museumof Iran

Tehran, National Museum Archaeological collections from Paleolithic to Qajar period

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre

The British Museum

The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.


Nearby

Hunnubat-Nanaya Kudurru

Kassites Kudurru boundary stone discovered at Susa.Louvre.

Stele of Marduk-apla-iddina I - Meli-Shipak II Kudurru

Land grant to Marduk-apla-iddina I by Meli-Shipak II. Kudurru of Melishihu. Louvre, Paris.


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