Thus, Nazimaruttash(479) presents a large estate to Merodach, and another to Kashakti-Shugab, his servant. Kurigalzu(480) granted an estate to Eṭir-Marduk for his conduct in a war against Assyria, and Bitiliashu confirmed it. A coppersmith who fled from the land of Ḥanigalbat made a fine specimen of his work for Bitiliashu, and the king rewarded him with a grant of land.(481) Adadi-shum-uṣur made another grant of land to an unknown servant of his.(482) Melishiḫu made a grant of land to his son, Merodach-baladan I.,(483) and granted it exemption from all imposts. Another grant he made to a servant of his.(484) So when Shamû and Shamûa, his son, two priests of Eria in Elam, fled from their own king and took refuge with Nebuchadrezzar I., he espoused their cause, plundered Elam, brought back their god, Eria, to Babylon, and they having taken the hands of Bêl, the king granted them an estate in Babylonia and freed it from imposts.(485) Nabû-aplu-iddina granted an estate to a namesake of his, which, however, seems to have been claimed as ancestral property.(486) Melishiḫu granted lands to Ḥasardu, a servant of his.(487) Merodach-baladan I. granted lands to Marduk-zâkir-shumi.(488) Marduk-nâdin-aḫi granted Adadi-zêr-iḳisha, for his services against Assyria, lands in the district of Bît-Ada, which seem to have been ancestral domains of one Ada.(489) Some fragments of clay copies of similar grants by Adadi-nirari,(490) Tiglath-pileser III.,(491) Ashurbânipal,(492) and Ashur-eṭil-ilâni(493) are preserved in the British Museum’s Collections from Nineveh. They all appear to record grants to favorite officials, who had deserved well of the king. (M471) The king also appears as not only confirming grants made by predecessors, but as restoring ancestral property, or temple endowments, which had come into other hands, on suit of the legal descendants of the original owners. Thus, certain land which had come into the possession of Târim-ana-ilishu and Ur-bêlit-muballiṭat-mîtûti, was claimed by Marduk-kudur-uṣur in the reigns of Adadi-shum-iddina and Adadi-nâdin-aḫi, and finally granted him in perpetuity by Melishiḫu.(494) The land which Gulkishar, King of the Sea Land, gave to a goddess had remained in her possession 696 years, until, in the time of Nebuchadrezzar I., the Governor of Bît Sin-mâgir had secularized it. Bêl-nâdin-apli restored it.(495)