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Land grant to Ḫunnubat-Nanaya kudurru

Land grant to Ḫunnubat-Nanaya kudurru

archaeological artefact · limestone · 1,179 BCE

The Land grant to Ḫunnubat-Nanaya kudurru is an ancient Mesopotamian entitlement narû recording the gift of forty GUR of uncultivated land and control over three settlements by Kassite king Meli-Šipak to his daughter and the provision of exemptions from service and taxation to villages in the region guaranteed with a sealed tablet given to her, presumably to make the land transfer more palatable to the local population. It was excavated by a French archaeological team under the auspices of Jacques de Morgan at the turn of the twentieth century at Susa where it was found with a duplicate. It…

material
limestone
held at
Louvre Museum · art museum
inv. no.
Sb 23

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found at
Susa
now in
Louvre Museum
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