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Location

  • Iraq, Qaryat ‘Abbās al ‘Almān
  • geo:33.058811,44.251808
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • -1xxx? / unknown

Classification

  • altar
  • Visible

Ritti-Marduk kudurru of Nebuchadrezzar I

data access 42308

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

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-05-26) , last updated by Ludwinski (2022-11-05), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
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Suggested citation: , E. and , L., Ritti-Marduk kudurru of Nebuchadrezzar I. https://vici.org/vici/42308, accessed 2026-09-23.