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Surroundings:

Tablet of ShamashKassite kudurru from Sippar (?)Kassite kudurru from Sippar (?)Hasardu kudurru from SipparRitti-Marduk kudurru of Nebuchadrezzar IRitti-Marduk kudurru of Nebuchadrezzar IThe Map of the World. BM 92687The Map of the World. BM 92687The Map of the World. BM 92687, reverse.Tablet of Nabu-apla-iddinaTablet of the priest Nabu-apla-iddina. 9th cent. BCSippar, Nabu-aplu-iddina tabletlagaba

Location:

  • Iraq, Tell Abu Habbah
  • geo:33.058842,44.252171
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2500~ / -500~

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=27921

Annotations

 E-babbar -"the house of splendor, the temple of the city god, Shamash, the Sun God, which was called E-Babara by the Sumerians, Bit-Un by the Semites. A large number of cuneiform tablets were discoveded in there and the tablet of Shamash was discovered in clay box beetwen them.

See:

  1. Andrew R. George, House Most High. The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia, Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake 1993
  2. Morris Jastrow, Jr..Nebopolassar and the Temple to the Sun-God at Sippar, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, University of Chicago Press, 1899, pp. 65–86

Nearby

Tablet of Shamash

British Museum, London.

Enlil-bānī Kudurru

Enlil-bānī land grant kudurru.

Ritti-Marduk kudurru of Nebuchadrezzar I

Babylonian Post-Kassite kudurru.


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