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Land grant to Marduk-apla-iddina I by Meli-Shipak II; Material: Limestone: Height: c. 76 cm: Width: 42 cm: Created: c. 1180 BC: Discovered: 1899 Shush, Khuzestan, Iran: Present location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Melišipak kudurru: Land grant to Marduk-apal-iddina I Meli-Šipak II , or alternatively Melišiḫu [nb 1] in contemporary inscriptions, was the 33rd king of the Kassite or 3rd Dynasty of Babylon c. 1186–1172 BC ( short chronology ) and ruled for 15 years.
The large size of the grant together with the generous freedom from all territorial obligations has led historians to assume he was the prince. There are thirty six kudurrus which are placed on the basis of art-history to Meli-Šipak's reign, of which eight are specifically identified by his name.
Land grant to Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru, the bēl pīḫati; Land grant to Munnabittu kudurru; Uzbi-Enlil kudurru; Broken kudurru of Marduk-apla-iddina; Adad-bēl-kala kudurru confirming a gift by the earlier king Adad-šuma-uṣur; Fragmentary kudurru of Marduk-apla-iddina; The Tehran kudurru
- ca. 1171–1159 BC
- Meli-Šipak II
Land grant to Marduk-apla-iddina I by Meli-Shipak II. ancient Mesopotamian narû. Upload media. Wikipedia. Instance of. kudurru. sculpture. Depicts. Sin, Shamash, Ishtar, Anu, Enlil, Nergal, Zababa, Ninurta, Marduk, Nabu, Hadad, Nusku and Shuqamuna.
The Land grant to Marduk-apla-iddina kudurru is a grey limestone 0.7-meter tall ancient Mesopotamian narû or entitlement stele recording the gift of four tracts of cultivated land with settlements totaling 84 GUR 160 qa by Kassite king of Babylon, Meli-Šipak (ca. 1186–1172 BC ), to a person described as his servant (arassu irīm: “he ...
The Stele of Marduk-apla-iddina records the grant to Marduk-apla-iddina I (ca 1171-1159 BC)by Kassite king of Babylon, Meli-Shipak II (ca. 1186–1172 BC ). Kathryn E. Slanski ,The Babylonian Entitlement narûs (kudurrus): A Study in Their Form and Function. ASOR 2003, pp. 194–196.