Temennu

Temennu is the Sumerian - Akkadian term for founding charter / founding capsule and is also called the sacred founding stone. The word originally comes from the Sumerian temen as the title for sacred area . The Sumerian , Akkadian , Assyrian and Babylonian kings mostly used the holy stone with a founding inscription when building new buildings or restoring sanctuaries.

literature

• Dietz-Otto Edzard and a. Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology , Vol. 6 , de Gruyter, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-11-010051-7 , p. 75