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Ryan Moorhen
Oct 24, 20181 min read
Kudurru Marduk Apla Iinna
A priest in prayer before the symbols for Marduk, chief god of Babylon, and Nabu, god of wisdom and writing. Neo-Babylonian, 7th-6th BCE
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Ryan Moorhen
Aug 3, 20185 min read
Kudurru Adad Etir
Commemorative stone stela in the form of a boundary-stone (kudurru): the stela consists of a small boulder, on one face of which a fiat...
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Ryan Moorhen
Aug 3, 20181 min read
Eanna-shum-iddina - Kudurru
The Eanna-shum-iddina kudurru is a boundary stone of governor Eanna-shum-iddina in the Sealand Dynasty of Babylon in the mid 2nd...
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Ryan Moorhen
Aug 3, 20183 min read
Nabu-apla-iddina - Kudurru Tablet
This stone tablet records the restoration of certain lands by the Babylonian king Nabu-apla-iddina to a priest. On the top of the stone...
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Ryan Moorhen
Aug 3, 20181 min read
Marduk-apla-iddina II - Kudurru Boundary Stone
Merodach-Baladan, King of Babylon, enfeoffs (makes a legal agreement with) a vassal. From the original in the Altes Museum, Berlin...
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Ryan Moorhen
Aug 3, 20181 min read
Michaux Stone - Kassite Kudurru
Babylonian kudurru of the Kassite Period, known as the "Michaux Stone". The stele bears an inscription (a property charter) in Akkadian...
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Ryan Moorhen
Aug 2, 20181 min read
Unfinished Kudurru @ The Louvre
Unfinished kudurru (boundary marker) with a horned serpent (symbol of Marduk) around pillar at bottom. The most proeminent gods are...
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Ryan Moorhen
Aug 2, 20182 min read
kudurru with a mushhushshu dragon
Top fragment of a kudurru with a mushhushshu dragon and divine symbols Period: Second Dynasty of Isin Date:ca. 1156–1025 B.C....
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Ryan Moorhen
Jul 30, 20185 min read
A Kassite / Mitanni Kudurru Boundary Stone
Kassite kudurrus signify many Indus Script hieroglyphs/hypertexts as sacred memories from the Script tradition. This hypothesis is...
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