kudurru

Probably from Elamite[1] or Akkadian 𒃻𒁺 (kudurru).

kudurru (plural kudurrus)

1. A boundary stone used by the Kassites in ancient Babylonia, bearing a written record of the ownership of the land on which it stood.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈdur.ru/

kudurru m (plural kudurrū or kudurrētu f) (from Middle Assyrian and Middle Babylonian on)

1. boundary stone, boundary marker
2. boundary
3. region, territory

• “kudurru”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[2], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
• Black, Jeremy; George, Andrew; Postgate, Nicholas (2000), “kudurru”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library