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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."

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: 21 June 2025] 

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