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Surroundings:

Tablet of ShamashKassite kudurru from Sippar (?)Kassite kudurru from Sippar (?)Ritti-Marduk kudurru of Nebuchadrezzar IRitti-Marduk kudurru of Nebuchadrezzar IHasardu kudurru from SipparThe Map of the World. BM 92687The Map of the World. BM 92687The Map of the World. BM 92687, reverse.Tablet of the priest Nabu-apla-iddina. 9th cent. BCTablet of Nabu-apla-iddinaSippar, 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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