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Sippar (Sumerian: 𒌓𒄒𒉣𒆠, Zimbir) (also
Sippir or Sippara) was an
ancient Near
Eastern Sumerian and
later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates...
- Old
Babylonian Meissner fragment (the
larger surviving fragment of the
Sippar tablet) has been used to
reconstruct possible earlier forms of the Epic...
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universally regarded as one of the
primary gods, he was
particularly venerated in
Sippar and Larsa. The moon god
Nanna (Sin) and his wife
Ningal were
regarded as...
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Sippar-Amnanum (also
Sippar-Annunitum,
Sippar-rabum,
Sippar-durum, and
Sippar-Anunit ),
modern Tell ed-Der (also Teil ed-Der) in
Baghdad Governorate,...
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attention has
focused on an area
roughly defined by 1) near Eshnunna, 2) near
Sippar, 3) not far from Kish and Babylon, 4) near the
Tigris River, and 5) not...
- 19 June, and in the city of
Sippar until at
least 20 June. The
earliest tablet dated to the
reign of
Nabonidus at
Sippar is from 26 June. However, a tablet...
- wife of Shamash, the sun god. She was
worshiped alongside her
husband in
Sippar.
Multiple royal inscriptions pertaining to this city
mention her. She was...
- commonly, but not certainly,
identified with the twin
cities of
Sippar Yahrurum and
Sippar Amnanum on the
banks of the Euphrates,
north of Babylon. The name...
- the
Nabonidus Cylinder from
Sippar, and the
Nabonidus Cylinders from Ur, four in number. The
Nabonidus Cylinder from
Sippar is a long text in
which Nabonidus...
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distinct deity. She was the
tutelary goddess of the
cities of
Akkad and
Sippar-Amnanum,
though she was also
worshiped elsewhere in Mesopotamia. As attested...
