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Umgebung:

Tablet of ShamashKassite kudurru from Sippar (?)Kassite kudurru from Sippar (?)Hasardu kudurru from SipparRitti-Marduk kudurru of Nebuchadrezzar IRitti-Marduk kudurru of Nebuchadrezzar ISippar, Nabu-aplu-iddina tabletTablet of the priest Nabu-apla-iddina. 9th cent. BCTablet of Nabu-apla-iddinalagaba

Lage:

  • Irak, Tell Abu Habbah
  • geo:33.059532,44.252472
  • Lage ± 100-500 m.

Klassification:

  • Objekt
  • Sichtbar

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=42600

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The Babylonian clay "map of the world" unearthed in Sippar is currently housed in Brithish Muesum in London (BM 92687). This map dates back to Neo-Babylonian (Persian Period, ca 500 BC is copy of an earlier original of the Sargonid Period, (late eighth or seventh century BC).  It is a kind of Babylonian cosmographhy as it is a drawing and textual description of the Babylonian cosmos.

See:

  1. Carlo Zaccagnini, ‘Maps of the World’, in Giovanni B. Lanfranchi et al., Leggo! Studies Presented to Frederick Mario Fales on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012, pp. 865-874.
  2. Irving L. Finkel, A join to the Map of the World: a notable discovery, British Museum Magazine: the Journal of the British Museum Friends (Winter 1995), pp. 26-27
  3. Eckhard Unger, Imago Mundi Vol. 2 , Iss. 1 -1937, pp. 1-7

The Babylonian clay "map of the world" unearthed in Sippar is currently housed in Brithish Muesum in London (BM 92687). This map dates back to Neo-Babylonian (Persian Period, ca 500 BC is copy of an earlier original of the Sargonid Period, (late eighth or seventh century BC).  It is a kind of Babylonian cosmographhy as it is a drawing and textual description of the Babylonian cosmos.

See:

  1. Carlo Zaccagnini, ‘Maps of the World’, in Giovanni B. Lanfranchi et al., Leggo! Studies Presented to Frederick Mario Fales on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012, pp. 865-874.
  2. Irving L. Finkel, A join to the Map of the World: a notable discovery, British Museum Magazine: the Journal of the British Museum Friends (Winter 1995), pp. 26-27
  3. Eckhard Unger, Imago Mundi Vol. 2 , Iss. 1 -1937, pp. 1-7

In der Nähe

Tablet of Shamash

British Museum, London.

Ebabbar, Sippar [Zimbir]

Abu Habba - Tell Abu Habbah - temple of Shamash - E-babbar.

Enlil-bānī Kudurru

Enlil-bānī land grant kudurru