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Location:

  • Iran (Islamic Republic of), Shūsh
  • geo:32.181313,48.264339
  • Location uncertain

Period or year:

  • -1300~ / unknown

Class:

  • Milestone
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=42307

Annotations

The Kudurru of Gula is a boundary stone kudurru dedicted to the Babylonian goddess of healing Gula, the most popular anthropomorfic deity on Middle Babylonian kudurru. It dates to Kassite period of Babylonia ca 1300 BC. Currently stele is housed at  Louvre.

See:

  1. http://arethuse1.free.fr/detail.php?nom=00255
  2. Tallay Ornan, The Triumph of the Symbol: Pictorial Representation of Deities in Mesopotamia and the Biblical Image Ban, Fribourg, Saint-Paul, 2005, pp. 25 ff, 130ff

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

Susa, Artisans' Quarter (1 km)

Susa, Artisans' Quarter

Susa, Donjon (1 km)

Fortress

Kaštiliašu Kudurru (1 km)

Kudurru of Kashtiliashu. Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre.


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