Musaru

An ancient Akkadian unit of area approximately equivalent to 36 square meters.

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Michalowski has demonstrated similarities and overlap between hymns and incantations - such as ending with a praise doxology - primarily in Sumerian but also in some Akkadian texts.(44) A recent note presented the interesting hypothesis that a new genre of divine hymns was created in the sixth century, designated musaru, and thus thought of as royal inscriptions.(45)

In the shadow of the muses: a view of Akkadian literature

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