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| Keywords: Babylonian - Boundary Stone - Walters 2110 - View A.jpg A kudurru the Akkadian term for boundary stone combines images of the king gods and divine symbols with a text recording royal grants of land and tax exemption to an individual While the original was housed in the temple a copy of the document was kept at the site of the land in question This example was found at the temple of Esagila the primary sanctuary of the god Marduk The king Marduk-nadin-ahe is depicted with his left hand raised in front of his face; he wears the tall Babylonian feathered crown and an elaborately decorated garment with a honeycomb pattern On the top are a sun disk star crescent moon and scorpion representing deities who witnessed the land grant and tax exemption A snake-dragon deity emerges from a row of altars shaped like temple façades along the back between 1099 1082 BC Middle Babylonian stone cm 28 21 10 8 accession number 21 10 23851 Dikran Kelekian Paris and New York Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1922 Inscription On reverse Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me The Jewish Museum New York 1964 The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 place of origin Cairo Egypt Walters Art Museum license Babylon Ancient Near East art in the Walters Art Museum Cuneiform on kudurrus Kudurrus of Marduk-nadin-ahhe Walters Art Museum 2110 Marduk-nadin-ahhe kudurru | ||||
