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Location

  • Iraq, Tell Abu Habbah
  • geo:33.058723,44.252377
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • -1300~ / unknown

Classification

  • altar
  • Visible

Identifiers

Enlil-bānī Kudurru

data access 42299

The Enlil-bani land grant kudurru in Brithish Museum BM 91036, dates to the reign of king Kadashman-Enlil I (1374-1360 BC-en:Amarna letters time), or Kadashman-Enlil II (1263-1255 BC). Acquired by British Museum before 1973 probably excavated by  Hormuzd Rassam`s team at Sippar. Enlil-bānī Kudurru, part of a dedicatory cone made of fired clay  preserved  only fragmentary (broken at base; eleven lines of inscription in two columns). It grants land to Enlil-bānī nišakku-priest It is:  25 centimetres  in hight.

See:

  1. John Anthony Brinkman,  A catalogue of cuneiform sources pertaining to specific monarchs of the Kassite Dynasty,  Materials and studies for Kassite history I, The Oriental Institute, Chicago, 1976
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlil-b%C4%81n%C4%AB_land_grant_kudurru
  3. L. W. King . Babylonian boundary-stones and memorial tablets in the British Museum. British Museum. 1912, pp. 3–4. no. I, pl.1e.
  4. Julian Reade,  Babylonian boundary-stones and comparable monuments in the British Museum, Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project 5, 1987, p.50

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-05-25) , last updated by Ludwinski (2022-11-05), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/42299
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Suggested citation: , E. and , L., Enlil-bānī Kudurru. https://vici.org/vici/42299, accessed 2026-09-23.