Marduk was the creator of the world to what ancient people?
Land grant to Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru Land grant to Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru The Land grant to Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru is an ancient Mesopotamian "narû", or entitlement stele, recording the gift ("irīmšu") of 18 "bur" 2 "eše" (about 120 hectares or 300 acres) of corn-land by Kassite king of Babylon Marduk-apla-iddina I (ca. 1171–1159 BC) to his "bēl pīḫati" (inscribed and meaning "person responsible"), or a provincial official. The monument is significant in part because it shows the continuation of royal patronage in Babylonia during a period when most of the near East was beset by collapse and confusion, and in part due to the lengthy genealogy of the
Marduk Marduk Marduk (cuneiform: AMAR.UTU; Sumerian: "amar utu.k" "calf of the sun; solar calf"; Greek , "Mardochaios"; ) was a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon. When Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BC), he slowly started to rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BC. In the city of Babylon, Marduk was worshiped in the temple Esagila. Marduk is associated with the divine weapon Imhullu. "Marduk"