Vici.org

Surroundings:

Stele of Marduk-apla-iddina ISusa, Acropolis, Stele of ShutruruSusa, Dynastic Temple of the Šutrukids, Relief of the godsSusa, Portrait of a Hellenistic queenSusa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed relief of two soldiers (Susa, Middle-Elamite basrelief of warrior godsSusa, Parthian coffinSusa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed relief of five soldiers (Susa, Stone fishSusa, Proto-Elamite inscriptionSusa, AcropolisSusa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed lions' reliefSusa, Early Elamite fishSusa, Sasanian glassSusa, Middle-Elamite inscription of Shilhak-Inshushinak, TranslationSusa, Statue of a praying man offering a goatSusa, Achaemenid capitalSusa, Statue of queen Napirasu, wife of Untaš-NapirišaSusa, Proto-Elamite reliefSusa, Dynastic Temple of the Šutrukids, Relief of the godsSusa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed relief of a soldier (Susa, Bitumen vesselSusa, Parthian coffinSusa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed relief of four soldiers (Susa, Apadana, Foundation tablet of Darius (DSf)Susa, Proto-Elamite inscriptionSusa, Achaemenid Palace, Glazed lions' reliefSusa, Early Elamite gobletSusa, Sumerian writing exerciseSusa, Kudurru of Mel-Shipak documenting a land donation, brought to Susa from Babylonia

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.


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2015-11-20. Last update by Elżbieta on 2020-02-10. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/23463 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
Annotation available using the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. Metadata available using the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication, unless it is explicitly stated otherwise.

Vici.org partners:

Livius.org: articles on ancient history   Rijksmuseum van Oudheden