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Kurigalzu I and the restoration of Babylonia1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

T. Clayden
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Summary

This paper presents a review of the building work undertaken by Kurigalzu I and II. In doing so it aims to demonstrate that Kurigalzu I (x–1375 B.C.) was responsible for one of the most extensive and widespread building programmes for which evidence has survived in Babylonia. It also highlights the unequivocal evidence that it was Kurigalzu I who founded the city of Dur-Kurigalzu.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 58 , 1996 , pp. 109 - 121
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1996 

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Footnotes

1

I am grateful to Dr Stephanie Dalley, Dr Roger Moorey and Dr Andrew George, whose review of drafts of this article have saved me from a number of serious errors. Those that remain are my own responsibility. In order not to clutter the text with lengthy bibliographical references to objects, such information is confined to footnotes.

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