Babylonian Boundary-Stones and Memorial-Tablets In
BABYLONIAN BOUNDARY-STONES AND MEMORIAL-TABLETS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. EDITED BY L. W. KING, M.A., ASSISTANT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. WITH AN ATLAS OF PLATES. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. SOLD AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM; AND AT LONGMANS & Co., 39, PATERNOSTER ROW; BERNARD QUARITCH, ii, GRAFTON STREET, NEW BOND STREET, W. ASHER & Co., 14, BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN; AND HENRY FROWDE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, AMEN CORNER, LONDON. I912. [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] PREFACE. The present work contains thirty-seven texts from Babyloniain Boundary-stones (kudurreti) and Memorial-tablets (nare), with translations, notes, and introduction; of these, twenty-five are published for the first time. They include the two earliest examples of this class of text now known, and four of the latest. The period covered by these texts extends from B.C. I450 to B.C. 550, i.e., the whole period of Babylonian history during which Boundary-stones were employed for the protection of private property. In the series of texts here given, the following are of special interest, as they illustrate periods of history of which hitherto no contemporary records are known: i. Text of the time of Kurigalzu, cut upon an ancient Boundary-stone, from which the original text had been erased; about B.C. 1400. 2. Text of the reign of Marduk-shapik-zer-mati, of the Fourth Dynasty of Babylon, about B.C. I090. 3. Two texts drawn up in the reign of the usurper Adad-aplu-iddina, about B.C. Io80. 4. Text dated in the reign of Simmash-Shipak, about B.C.
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