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Hasardu kudurru from SipparTablet of ShamashKassite kudurru from Sippar (?)Kassite kudurru from Sippar (?)Tablet of Nabu-apla-iddinaTablet of the priest Nabu-apla-iddina. 9th cent. BCThe Map of the World. BM 92687The Map of the World. BM 92687The Map of the World. BM 92687, reverse.Sippar, Nabu-aplu-iddina tabletlagaba

Location:

  • Iraq, Qaryat ‘Abbās al ‘Almān
  • geo:33.058811,44.251808
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -1xxx? / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=42308

Annotations

The boundary-stone Kudurru for Ritti-Marduk of  Nebuchadrezzar I (r. c. 1125 – 1104 BC) the king of the IVth Dynasty Babylon - Middle Babylonian period was unearthedat Sippar (Abu Haba) together with the Hasardu kudurru BM 90829. The mainface of  the kudurru is composed of six registers, with gods represented by astral and tortoise, serpent and creatures as beings a Scorpion-man for example. The two columns  contain on the other sidescontain a cuneiform texts, relating the military services of Ritti-Marduk. Dimensions: height: 64 cm, length: 21 cm, width: 18 cm.

See:

  1. Julian Reade,  Babylonian boundary-stones and comparable monuments in the British Museum, Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project 5, 1987, p. 48
  2. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=369364&partId=1

Nearby

Hasardu kudurru from Sippar

Steles found in the Temple of Shamash. BM 90829

Ebabbara, Sippar [Zimbir]

Abu Habba - Tell Abu Habbah - temple of Shamash - E-babbar.

Tablet of Shamash

British Museum, London.


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2017-05-26. Last update by Ludwinski on 2022-11-05. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/42308 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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