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	Borsippa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Borsippa is mentioned, usually in connection with Babylon, in texts from the (Click link for more info and facts about Ur III) Ur III period through the (Click link for more info and facts about Seleucid) Seleucid period and even in early Islamic texts.
		The local god was (Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools) Nabu, called the "son" of Babylon's Marduk, as would be appropriate for Babylon's lesser sister-city.
		Some (A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription) tablets have been recovered, but archeologists still hope to uncover a temple archive of cuneiform tablets, of which there were some copies in ancient (An extinct language of the Assyrians regarded as a dialect of Akkadian) Assyrian libraries.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/borsippa.htm (384 words)

	NEBO - LoveToKnow Article on NEBO
		It is due to the close association of Borsippa with Babylon after the period when Babylon became the centre of the Babylonian empire that the cult of Nebo retained a prominence only some degrees less than that of Marduk.
		Borsippa became in the course of time so completely a mere adjunct to Babylon that one might fairly have expected the Nebo cult to have been entirely absorbed by that of Marduk.
		The temple school at Borsippa continued to flourish until the end of the neo-Babylonian empire, and school texts of various contents, dated in the reigns of Artaxerxes, Cambyses and Darius, furnish the evidence that the school survived even the conquest of Babylonia by Cyprus (538 n.e.).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEBO.htm (890 words)

	BORSIPPA - LoveToKnow Article on BORSIPPA
		Borsippa was the sister city of Babylon, and is often called in the inscriptions Babylon IL, also the city without equal.
		Like Babylon Borsippa is not mentioned in the oldest inscriptions, but comes into importance first after Khammurabi had made Babylon the capital of the whole land, somewhere before 2000 nc.
		In general Borsippa shared the fate of Babylon, falling into decay after the time of Alexander, and finally in the middle ages into ruins.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BO/BORSIPPA.htm (670 words)

	disc sec 9
		The Borsippa cylinder is a barrel-shaped clay cylinder on which is written a text in cuneiform script in the Akkadian language.
		The cylinder was found at Borsippa, 12 miles SW of Babylon, in the main temple complex, known as Ezida, in foundations of the temple of the god Nabû, son of the chief Babylonian god, Marduk.
		Borsippa was famous for its temple school of astrology and astronomy.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/macedonia/disc_sec_9.htm (630 words)

	Al Hillah article - Al Hillah Iraq Euphrates Baghdad 1998 Babil Babylon Borsippa Kush 1101 - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Al Hillah is a city in central Iraq on the river Euphrates, 100km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, with an estimated population of 364,700 in 1998.
		It is the capital of Babil province and is located near the ancient cities of Babylon, Borsippa and Kush.
		It is situated in a predominately agricultural region which is extensively irrigated with water tapped from the river, producing a wide range of cereals, fruit and textiles.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Hilla (210 words)

	Shamash-shum-ukin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Babylonian territory consisted of Babylon, Borsippa, Kutha and Sippar.
		While Shamash-shum-ukin was sovereign ruler of the south in theory, Assyria maintained a garrison in Nippur, and some of the provincial governors tried to get into Assyrian favour.
		After two years Babylon and Borsippa were besieged and Elam was beaten.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shamash-shum-ukin (361 words)

	borsippa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Borsippa was an important ancient city of Mesopotamia (Iraq), built on both sides of a lake about eleven miles southwest of Babylon, on the west bank of the Euphrates.
		The site of Borsippa is now called Birs Nimrud, identifying the site with Nimrod, and the ziggurat, the "Tongue Tower," is identified in the Talmud and Arab culture with the Tower of Babel.
		An impressive ruin of its ziggurat marks the site, which has not been professionally excavated, though an Austrian team was posed to begin in 2003.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /borsippa.html (374 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - BABEL, TOWER OF. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This remnant of the Tower is said to be at Borsippa.
		That some story about Babel had reached Mohammed appears to be certain; but it was in a singularly imperfect form and was confused by him with another story about Khordad and Mordad, two of the Parsi Amshaspands.
		Two principal locations are given in the literature of the subject: (1) the ruins of Birs-Nimrud at old Borsippa, south of the site of old Babylon; and (2) the ruins within the circuit of ancient Babylon itself.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=45&letter=B (1869 words)

	Nabu article - Nabu Babylonian wisdom writing Marduk deity Amorites Mesopotamia - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While Marduk became Babylon´s main deity, Nabu resided in nearby Borsippa in his temple E-zida.
		He was first called the "scribe and minister of Marduk", later assimilated as Marduk´s beloved son from Sarpanitum.
		During the Babylonian New Year Festival, the cult statue of Nabu was transported from Borsippa to Babylon in order to commune with his father Marduk.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Nabu (275 words)

	Ziggurat
		The temple of Borsippa, 75 miles south of Baghdad, was constructed atop the ruins of a smaller tower from the second millennium B.C. Nebuchadnezzar's temple was dedicated to Nabu, the god of science and learning in Mesopotamia and the king's protector.
		Given the Borsippa tower's height of 231 feet, "you can imagine how many more millions (of bricks) were needed in the construction of the outer walls of other stages," he said.
		One text says the king wanted the Borsippa built on the same design as that of the Tower of Babel, of which only the foundation survives in Babylon seven miles to the north.
	www.crystalinks.com /ziggurat.html (1408 words)

	NEBO, or NABU (" the proclaimer ") - Online Information article about NEBO, or NABU (" the proclaimer ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ea (q.v.), which meant that the prerogatives of Ea were transferred to Marduk by the priests of Babylon.
		ancient tradition and that the priests of Marduk likewise were dependent upon the school at Borsippa for their knowledge and wisdom.
		temple school at Borsippa continued to flourish until the end of the neo-Babylonian empire, and.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NAN_NEW/NEBO_or_NABU_the_proclaimer_.html (1471 words)

	Borsippa, Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Borsippa or Birs Nimrud, a Sumerian name, which means the horn or the sword of the sea.
		The most famous site in Borsippa is its tower or ziggurat, which is attached to a staircase of seven layers.
		At the next side of the tower, there is a hill on which it is believed that the shrine of Prophet Abraham "Ibrahim Al-Khalil" (pbuh) is situated.
	www.atlastours.net /iraq/borsippa.html (185 words)

	Babylon - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Eastward of these come the Ishgn el-Aswador "Black Mound" and three lines of rampart, one of which encloses the Babil mound on the N. and E. sides, while a third forms a triangle with the S.E. angle of the other two.
		of the Euphrates are other ramparts and the remains of the ancient Borsippa.
		We learn from Herodotus and Ctesias that the city was built on both sides of the river in the form of a square, and enclosed within a double row of lofty walls to which Ctesias adds a third.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Babylon (1256 words)

	info: Borsippa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An inscription of Nebuchadrezzar II, the 'Borsippa inscription,' tells how he restored the temple of Nabu, 'the temple of the seven spheres,' with 'bricks of noble lapis lazuli.' that must have been covered with a rich blue glaze, surely a memorable sight.
		BORSIPPA BORSIPPA (Barsip in the Babylonian and Assyrian inscriptions; Borsif in the Talmud; mod.
		Monday, March 21, 2005 Borsippa Modern Birs, or Birs Nimrud ancient Babylonian city southwest of Babylon in central Iraq.
	www.info-assicurazione.com /Borsippa.html (733 words)

	Online 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf.
		BORSIPPA (Barsip in the Babylonian and Assyrian inscriptions; Borsif in the Talmud; mod.
		Boo-iopos=ox-ford, tradition-ally connected with Io, daughter of Inachus, who, in the form of a heifer, crossed the Thracian Bosporus on her wanderings)
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BLA_BOS/index.html (475 words)

	The Catholic Encyclopedia - Tower of Babel
		The position of Babil within the limits of the ancient Babylon agrees with the Biblical location of the tower; the name Babil itself may be regarded as a traditional relic of the name Babel interpreted by the inspired writer as referring to the confusion of tongues.
		The Babylonian Talmud (Buxtorf, "Lexicon talmudicum", col. 313) connects Borsippa with the confusion of tongues; but a long period elapsed from the time of the composition of Genesis 11 to the time of the Babylonian Talmud.
		Besides, the Biblical account seems to imply that the tower was within the city limits, while it is hardly probably that the city limits extended to Borsippa in very ancient times.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Catholic_Encyclopedia/15005b.htm (1208 words)

	Borsippa: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Borsippa
		The planet-tower, wherein Bel was worshipped in the days when astrolaters were the greatest astronomers.
		Definition of Borsippa is extracted from the home page of United Lodge of Theosophists and THE THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY BY H. (Printed 1892).
		Borsippa is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Borsippa/id/199397 (371 words)

	Clearing the Confusion over Babel
		Nebuchadrezzar's inscription refers to the temple at Borsippa, which was the temple of Nebo, and not to the temple of Marduk at Babel.
		The conclusion that the Borsippa site may have been the inspiration for the legend, later mislocated to Babel, is supported by the fact that in ruins it was known as Birs Nimrud.
		Additional evidence for Borsippa ironically comes from one of the literalist's key pieces of evidence--the assertion that Borsippa means "tongue tower." This name is derived from the Chaldean ("Barzippa"), indicating a linguistic origin much more recent than the tower itself.
	www.infidels.org /library/magazines/tsr/1998/6/986babel.html (1530 words)

	AccordingtotheScriptures.org :: The Tower of Babel
		The remains of this tower are believed by some to be located in the region of Borsippa (included in the photo section), which is today called Birs Nimrud, identifying it with that rebel Nimrod whose kingdom began with the building of Babel and its infamous Tower.
		The name Borsippa means, “tongue-tower”, reminding us of the time when “the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth” (Genesis 11:9).
		We say for the other, that is, this edifice, the house of the seven lights of the earth, the most ancient monument of Borsippa.
	www.accordingtothescriptures.org /archeology/towermap.html (1185 words)

	Ancient Borsippa (Birs Nimrud) of Babylonia [Iraq]
		The ancient city of Borsippa is located 12 miles south of the city-state Babylon in Hillah Province of central Iraq.
		An ancient religious center it was the site of the Ezida Temple dedicated to Marduk - the national god of the Old Babylonian Empire.
		Borsippa was destroyed in the fifth century BC by the Achaemenid Persian King Xerxes I.....
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Borsippa.html (112 words)

	Chronicle of Nabonidus
		The king did not come to Babylon for the ceremony of the month of Nisanu; the god Nabu did not come to Babylon, the god Bêl did not go out of Esagila in procession, the festival of the New Year was omitted.
		The king did not come to Babylon for the ceremonies of the month of Nisanu; Nabu did not come to Babylon, Bêl did not go out of Esagila in procession, the festival of the New Year was omitted.
		Seventeenth year (539): Nabu went from Borsippa for the procession of Bêl [lacuna] The king entered the temple of Eturkalamma; in the temple he [lacuna].
	prophetess.lstc.edu /~rklein/Documents/chronnab.htm (1310 words)

	Nabu - Ancient Near East.net
		The cult of Nabu may have been introduced into Mesopotamia from Syria with the arrival of nomadic Amorite tribes from the early second millennium BCE onwards.
		His centre of worship ultimately came to be located at Borsippa, near Babylon.
		Integrated from there into the court circle of the Babylonian chief god Marduk, Nabu was initially conceived of as Marduk's vizier, later (from the Kassite period onwards) as his son, with Nisaba as his consort.
	www.ancientneareast.net /religion_mesopotamian/gods/nabu.html (381 words)

	Legal Decisions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Judgment of an Estate in Borsippa, Ninth year of Nabonidus, 546 B.C. The record of this suit, which bears the date of the ninth year of Nabonidus, received the signatures of six judges and two clerks.
		None of the judges are the same as those who signed the record of Belilit's suit except Nergal-banunu, who was then clerk of the court, but at the time of Bunanit's suit become chief justice.
		The judges heard their complaint; they discussed the tablets and documents which Bunanit brought before them and they granted Iqbi-ilu no power over the house in Borsippa, which instead of her dowry had been devised unto Bunanit, over Nabu-nur-ilani, whom she and her husband had bought for silver, nor over anything belonging to Ben-Hadad-natan.
	www.earth-history.com /Babylon/bab-neo-babylonian-legaldecisions.htm (907 words)

	Smith's Bible Dictionary on SearchGodsWord.org
		The human family endeavored b check the tendency to separation by the establishment of a great central edifice and a city which should serve as the metropolis of the whole world.
		--In the Borsippa inscription of Nebuchadnezzar there is an allusion to the confusion of tongues.
		"We say for the other, that is, this edifice, the house of the Seven Lights of the Earth, the most ancient monument of Borsippa, a former king built it [they reckon forty-two ages], but he did not complete its head.
	www.searchgodsword.org /dic/sbd/print.cgi?number=T4344 (309 words)

	Borsippa -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Its patron god was Nabu, and the city's proximity to the capital, Babylon, helped it to become an important religious centre.
		) built or rebuilt the Ezida temple at Borsippa, dedicating it to Marduk (the national god of Babylonia); subsequent kings recognized Nabu as the deity of Ezida and…
		Hammurabi (reigned 1792–50 BC) built or rebuilt the Ezida temple at Borsippa, dedicating it to Marduk (the national god of Babylonia); subsequent kings recognized Nabu as the deity of...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9080786 (403 words)

	Psalm to Marduk
		Esagila is the name of the chief temple of Marduk, located in Babylon and known from Old Babylonian times until the Hellenistic period.
		It is true that Ezida of Borsippa was a temple of Nabu, but it is not inappropriate to call Marduk, the chief of the gods in Neo-Babylonian times, the "Lord of Ezida", especially since he seems to have been associated with this temple even as early as the time of Hammurabi.
		Emachtila is a principal sanctuary in the temple of Ezida at Borsippa.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~humm/Resources/Ane/psMarduk.html (600 words)

	Cyrus takes Babylon (530 BCE)
		The king did not come to Babylon for the ceremony of the month of Nisanu; the god Nabû did not come to Babylon, the god Bêl did not go out of Esagila in procession, the festival of the New Year was omitted.
		But the offerings within the temples Esagila and Ezida for the gods of Babylon and Borsippa were given according to the complete ritual.
		Seventeenth year (539/538): Nabû went from Borsippa for the procession of Bêl [lacuna] The king entered the temple of Eturkalamma; in the temple he [lacuna].
	www.livius.org /ct-cz/cyrus_I/babylon02.html (1379 words)

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