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Surroundings:

BabylonHadad from AleppoBabylonian - Boundary StoneTakil-ana-ilīšu kudurru - British MuseumKudurru of Marduk-nadin-ahhe king of IsinMarduk-nasir kudurru, Kudurru of IsinCyrus CylinderesagilaA processional way - Ishtar Gate, BabylonBabylon, Procession RoadBabylon, Lion

Location:

  • Iraq, Madīnat Bābil
  • geo:32.536827,44.42403
  • Location uncertain

Class:

  • Milestone
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=42309

Annotations

The Eanna-shum-iddina kudurru is a boundary stone of governor Eanna-shum-iddina in the Sealand Dynasty of Babylon.  According to the inscription Eanna-shum-iddina, the governor of the Sealand granted the land to a man called Gula-eresh.The British Museum dates this kudurru  - BM 102485 to 1125-1100 BC . Stele was purchased from Messrs. Schaschua and Dunnos and co. described as from a place near Babylon1  in 1907.

See:

  1. http://www2.uned.es/geo-1-historia-antigua-universal/MESOPOTAMIA/kudurru3.htm
  2. L.W. King, Babylonian boundary stones and memorial tablets , London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1912), pp. 76-79, plates I-IV
  3. Julian Reade,  Babylonian boundary-stones and comparable monuments in the British Museum, Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project 5, 1987, p. 49

References

  1. Julian Reade,1987, p. 49


Nearby

Babylon

BC.(http://www.digitalhistoryproject.com/2011/09/by-morris-jastrow-jr.html; http://www.kadingirra.com/images/plan02.jpg

Babylon, Hadad of Aleppo

Storm god Hadad of Aleppo in Ancient Orient Museum in Istanbul. Stela was unearthed in Babylon in palace of King Nebuchadnezzar II

Etemenanki

The Etemenanki, the Tower of Babel - ziggurat


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