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English: Scorpion-tailed archer, from a Middle Babylonian Kudurru boundary stone known as the Kudurru for Šitti-Marduk. Inscribed with a Charter from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar I.
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Babylonian Boundary Stones And Memorial Tablets In The British Museum, p.97
Author Leonard William King

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Scorpion-tailed archer, from a Middle Babylonian Kudurru boundary stone. Inscribed with a Charter from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar I.

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