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kudurru

Place of discovery : Suse
AS 6373
Département des Antiquités orientales
Inventory number
Numéro principal : AS 6373

Description

Object name/Title
Dénomination : kudurru (fragment)
Description/Features
Inscriptions
Écriture :
cunéiforme

Physical characteristics

Dimensions
Hauteur : 19,3 cm ; Largeur : 20,7 cm ; Profondeur : 17,9 cm
Materials and techniques
Matériau : basalte (veine grise)
Technique : incisé (inscriptions sur les 3/4 du cylindre), sculpté

Places and dates

Date of discovery
1906-1908
Place of discovery
Suse

History

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee
Morgan, Jacques Jean Marie de, Fouilleur/Archéologue
Acquisition details
partage après fouilles
Owned by
Etat
Held by
Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités orientales

Location of object

Current location
non exposé

Index

Mode d'acquisition
partage après fouilles
Name
fragment - kudurru
Materials
basalte
Techniques
incisé - sculpté
Places
Suse
Script
cunéiforme

  • Paulus, Susanne, Die babylonischen Kudurru-Inschriften von der kassitischen bis zur frühneubabylonischen Zeit. Untersucht unter besonderer Berücksichtigung gesellschafts- und rechtshistorischer Fragestellung. Alter Orient und Altes Testament Bd. 51 (AOAT 51), Münster, Ugarit-Verlag, 2014, MŠ 5
  • Seidl, Ursula, Die babylonischen Kudurru-Reliefs. Symbole mesopotamischer Gottheiten (OBO 87), Feiburg, Göttingen, 1989, G1
  • Seidl, Ursula, Die babylonischen Kudurru-Reliefs. Symbole mesopotamischer Gottheiten (OBO 87), Feiburg, Göttingen, 1989, G2
  • Brinkman, John Anthony, A catalogue of cuneiform sources pertaining to specific monarchs of the Kassite dynasty. Materials and Studies for Kassite History, Vol. I (MSKH 1) Materials and Studies for Kassite History (MSKH) A catalogue of cuneiform sources pertaining to specific monarchs of the Kassite dynasty. Materials and Studies for Kassite History (MSKH), Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1976, MSKH S.2.7
  • Steinmetzer, Franz Xaver, Die babylonischen Kudurru (Granzsteine) als Urkundenform untersucht. Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums Bd.11 (AGKA 11), Padeborn, 1922, n° 47 (P12)

Comparative literature

- Slanski, Kathryn E., The Babylonian Entitlement narûs (kudurrus). A Study in their Form and Function. American Scools of Oriental Research Books vol. 9 (ASOR Books 9), Boston, ASOR, 2003
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