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Melem-kurukurra-dulla

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jan 13, 2018 10:23 AM — History
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According to an inscription of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus, the name of the wall of Kish was Melem-kurukurra-dulla, whose Sumerian ceremonial name means "(Whose) Radiance Spreads over (All) Lands."

Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.


https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/216202762

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  • Melem-kurukurra-dulla bounds Kish (720 BC - 540 BC)
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unlocated, wall (of a city), city wall

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Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Melem-kurukurra-dulla: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/216202762> [accessed: 07 July 2020] 

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