Text, Nazi-Maruttash Kudurru

Four-point cross with rays inside a circle. Nazi-Maruttash Kudurru. Kassite period, reign of Nazi-Maruttash (1307-1282 BC), copied during the reign of Marduk-apla-iddina (1171-1159 BC) Discovered in Susa where it had been taken as spoils of war in the 12th Century B.C. Limestone. The inscription records a gift of land granted by King Nazi-Maruttash to the god Marduk, that is, to his temple. Two texts, engraved at the base of the historiated faces, indicate that this stone stele is the copy, made during the reign of Marduk-apla-iddina I, of the stele in earth which had been shaped at the time of the gift and placed before the god. The collapse of a wall having destroyed it, the heirs of the first beneficiary, several generations later, had a replica made in stone guaranteeing the continuity of the attribution of title deeds. J. de Morgan excavations. Sb 21