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	Nippur - LoveToKnow 1911
		NIPPUR, one of the most ancient of all the Babylonian cities of which we have any knowledge, the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god, En-lil, lord of the storm demons.
		It was situated on both sides of the Shatt-en-Nil canal, one of the earliest courses of the Euphrates, between the present bed of that river and the Tigris, almost roo m.
		Excavation at Nippur is particularly difficult and costly by reason of the inaccessibility of the site, and the dangerous and unsettled condition of the surrounding country, and still more by reason of the immense mass of later debris under which the earlier and more important Babylonian remains are buried.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Nippur (2249 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - NIPPUR:
		The name of this chief Babylonian god, identical with the Canaanitish Ba'al, suggests that his worship at Nippur was the consolidation of that of many local Ba'als, and that Nippur obtained its religious preeminence by having gained the leadership among the Semitic communities.
		B.C. was planted beside the canal Chebar (Kabar) not far from Nippur, apparently to the east of the ancient city, which was then still a place of importance and must have influenced the social and industrial life of the Jewish community.
		The modern excavations of Nippur under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania are among the most important of all that have been as yet undertaken in western Asia.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=298&letter=N&search=Marduk (536 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nippur
		The city of Nippur [nipoor'] (Sumerian Nibru, Akkadian Nibbur) was one of the most ancient of all the Babylonian cities of which we have any knowledge, the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god, Enlil, ruler of the cosmos subject to An alone.
		Of the history and conditions of Nippur in the Arabic period we learn little from the excavations, but from outside sources it appears that the city was the seat of a Christian bishopric as late as the 12th century AD.
		The excavations at Nippur were the first to reveal to us the, extreme antiquity of Babylonian civilization, and, as already stated, they give us the best consecutive record of the development of that civilization, with a continuous occupancy from a period of unknown antiquity, long antedating 5000 BC, onward to the middle ages.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nippur (4371 words)

	Nippur: At the Center of the World of Sumer and Akkad
		Above are the expressions for citizen of Nippur and the assembly of Nippur.
		Nippur was a substantial city for its time, although small by American standards of urban and suburban sprawl.
		The city of Nippur was extensively populated during the late third millennium B.C. when political affairs and economic life were centralized throughout the region under the authority of the city of Ur, a site down river a distance of a week or more.
	www.geocities.com /Eureka/Park/2227/nippur.html (1231 words)

	Nippur (mod. Nuffar) - CDLI Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From the earliest historical periods in Mesopotamia, Nippur occupied an important position because it was home to the god Enlil, the main deity of the Sumerian pantheon.
		Though Nippur was never the seat of a king or a regional capital, the city held a special religious significance as the seat of the god Enlil.
		When Nippur was sacked by the Elamites at the end of the 13th century, the city began a second long decline.
	cdli.ucla.edu /wiki/index.php/Nippur_(mod._Nuffar) (1942 words)

	Nippur de Lagash
		Nippur de Lagash debutó la revista D'artagnan, y pronto se convertiría en uno de los personajes más populares de la editorial y de Argentina.
		Nippur, que lleva el nombre de la ciudad de sus padres, es un gran guerrero y general de la ciudad de Lagash, donde reina Urukagina.
		Nippur de Lagash debutó en D'artagnan Nº 151 en mayo de 1967, y siguió publicándose en esta revista.
	www.historieteca.com.ar /Historietas/Nippur/nippurdelagash.htm (1012 words)

	Ancient Nippur (Niffer) [Nuffar] in Sumer [Iraq]
		Situated 150 kilometers southeast of Baghdad in Iraq, Nippur was centrally placed in the territory of the Sumer civilization of the 3rd millennium BC.
		Nippur is particularly important to scholars because of its large archives of cuneiform tablets ranging in date from the late 3rd millennium to the later 1st millennium BC and including both administrative and literary texts...
		This is Nippur, for thousands of years the religious center of Mesopotamia where Enlil, the supreme god of the Sumerian pantheon, created mankind.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Nippur_Niffer_Nuffar.html (302 words)

	Nippur - Crystalinks
		So far as we can judge from the inscriptions, Nippur did not enjoy at this time, or at any later period for that matter, political hegemony, but was distinctively a sacred city, important from the possession of the famous shrine of Enlil.
		Of the history and conditions of Nippur in the Arabic period we learn little from the excavations, but from outside sources it appears that the city was the seat of a Christian bishopric as late as the 12th century AD.
		The excavations at Nippur were the first to reveal to us the extreme antiquity of Babylonian civilization, and, as already stated, they give us the best consecutive record of the development of that civilization, with a continuous occupancy from a period of unknown antiquity, long antedating 5000 BC, onward to the middle ages.
	www.crystalinks.com /nippur.html (1724 words)

	Nippur
		In its time Nippur was on both sides of the Euphrates river.
		Nippur was according to Sumerian mythology, the home of the god Enlil, the god of storm god and of force, who assembled the other gods at Nippur.
		Nippur was accordingly powerful, able to give directions on certain points to the rule of a new king.
	i-cias.com /e.o/nippur.htm (209 words)

	Nippur y una historieta de mierda
		Nippur estaba con su amigo Emmeruk que iba a comprar esclavos y se lo llevó porque estaba en oferta, aparte de que se veía fortachón.
		Nippur tampoco pudo hacer nada ya que estaba de visita en lo de unos amigos y se enteró de todo cuando volvió.
		Nippur habla con Idi y recibe una disertación acerca de la inutilidad de las cosas y que se vaya que él va a luchar hasta el fin.
	www.quintadimension.com /televicio/index.php?id=138 (1502 words)

	Nippur
		Although never the capital of any kingdom, Nippur retained great political importance due to the temples located there, and the religious nature of the city kept it from most of the recurrent patterns of devastation that accompanied the constant warfare of the region.
		The religious quarter on the eastern side of the city was designated dur-an-ki, which is Sumerian for "the bond of heaven and earth." Important monuments at Nippur include a series of Early Dynastic temples dedicated to Inanna, the temple of Enlil and the neighbouring ziggurat of the Ur III Period.
		Nippur was first excavated in 1888 by an excavation sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Places/Place/642322 (809 words)

	Nippuren Cats.-Persian, Exotics and Himalayan
		When Homero was five months old, Nippur arrived, which by that time was only two months old.
		Nippur is a wonderful red Persian, my husband and I felt in love with him since the first day we saw him.
		It was incredible watching both cats: Homero licked and took care of Nippur as if he were his own baby.
	www.nippuren.com /acerca_e.htm (219 words)

	Mesopotamia: the sacred city of Nippur
		Subsubsection of Chapter 2 (Mesopotamia) of John Heise's 'Akkadian language' with references to the excavations of the Sumerian city Nippur.
		Nippur has been excavated by the Americans for more than a century and it still is researched now.
		THE NIPPUR EXPEDITION at the ORIENTAL INSTITUTE ARCHAEOLOGY
	www.sron.nl /~jheise/akkadian/nippur.html (111 words)

	Oriental Institute \| Nippur - Sacred City Of Enlil
		The choice of Nippur as the seat of one of the few early Christian bishops, lasting until the city's final abandonment around A.D. 800, was probably an echo of its place at the center of Mesopotamian religion.
		Nippur was the center of an agricultural district, with much of the land in the possession of temples.
		It was felt at that time that although Nippur had been inundated by a sea of dunes since the 1920's, the information to be gained, especially on Sumerian culture, justified the extraordinary expense and difficulty caused by those dunes.
	www-oi.uchicago.edu /OI/PROJ/NIP/PUB93/NSC/NSC.html (5903 words)

	Nippur
		In its time Nippur was on both sides of the Euphrates river.
		Nippur was according to Sumerian mythology, the home of the god Enlil, the storm god, and god of force and who assembled the other gods at Nippur.
		Nippur was accordingly powerful, able to give directions on certain points to the rule of a new king.
	www.lexicorient.com /e.o/nippur.htm (209 words)

	Map of Nippur
		This drawing is based on a map of the ancient city of Nippur made about 1500 BC.
		Nippur was a Babylonian city located south of the capital city of Babylon on the Euphrates River.
		Compare this to a modern map of archeological excavations at Nippur.
	www.thenagain.info /Classes/Sources/Nippur.html (79 words)

	Nippur
		Although never the capital of any kingdom, Nippur retained great political importance due to the temples located there, and the religious nature of the city kept it from most of the recurrent patterns of devastation that accompanied the constant warfare of the region.
		The religious quarter on the eastern side of the city was designated dur-an-ki, which is Sumerian for "the bond of heaven and earth." Important monuments at Nippur include a series of Early Dynastic temples dedicated to Inanna, the temple of Enlil and the neighbouring ziggurat of the Ur III Period.
		Nippur was first excavated in 1888 by an excavation sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.ancientsites.com /aw/Places/Place/642322 (809 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Enlil
		Enlil is associated with the ancient city of Nippur, and since Enlu with the determinative for "land" or "district" is a common method of writing the name of the city, it follows, apart from other evidence, that Enlil was originally the patron deity of Nippur.
		Inscriptions found at Nippur, where extensive excavations were carried on during 1888–1900 by Messrs Peters and Haynes, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, show that Enlil was the head of an extensive pantheon.
		It was no doubt in part Enlil's position as the second figure of the triad that enabled him to survive the political eclipse of Nippur and made his sanctuary a place of pilgrimage to which Assyrian kings down to the days of Assur-bani-pal paid their homage equally with Babylonian rulers.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Enlil (969 words)

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		Instead, Nippur maintained a position of political neutrality while acting as a religious center to which other cities and rulers turned.
		Indeed, of the major cities of Sumer, Nippur was the farthest north.
		Another remarkable document is a map (in clay) of the city of Nippur itself, marking the locations of various monuments.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=MESP0041 (261 words)

	Standing female figure with clasped hands [Mesopotamia, Nippur, Inanna temple, Level VIIB] (62.70.2) \| Object Page \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This statue of a standing woman with her hands clasped in front of her chest was found in the plasterings of a mud-brick bench located in one of the cellars of the Nippur temple of Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of abundance.
		Her garment is draped over her left shoulder and falls in folds indicated by two incised lines along the border of the otherwise smooth fabric.
		The best-preserved statues at Nippur are those that were buried within the temple furniture, like this example.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/edys/hod_62.70.2.htm (233 words)

	NIPPUR - Online Information article about NIPPUR
		Excavation at Nippur is particularly difficult and costly by reason of the in-accessibility of the site, and the dangerous and unsettled condition of the surrounding country, and still more by reason of the immense mass of later debris under which the earlier and more important Babylonian remains are buried.
		language, have been found at Nippur, and these may be dated in the era of the kings of Ur and Isin, since some of them are mentioned by name in the petitions.
		reproduction of the Nippur tablet, the characters upon it do not appear to resemble those in use at the time of the First Dynasty, nor those of the period of the Dynasties of Ur and Isin.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NEW_NUM/NIPPUR.html (4204 words)

	Oriental Institute \| The Nippur Expedition
		This is Nippur, for thousands of years the religious center of Mesopotamia, where Enlil, the supreme god of the Sumerian pantheon, created mankind.
		The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago began digging at Nippur in 1948; this is the longest-running Oriental Institute excavation in the Near East.
		Nippur was sacred, but that was only one aspect of a thriving urban complex.
	oi.uchicago.edu /research/projects/nip (1130 words)

	Dubsar, the Cuneiform Scribe Welcomes You To Ancient Nippur
		Below are the expressions for citizen of Nippur and the assembly of Nippur (notice the different handwriting style in the two expressions).
		To see Nippur through the eyes of explorer and excavator John Punnett Peters, first modern archaeologist at Nippur, visit our Earth-Moving Room.
		To learn more about ancient Nippur, discover the resources in the Reading Room or wander over to the Cultural Annex for the cultural context of the Sumerians and Akkadians who inhabited Nippur and the neighboring great cities.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/stone/319 (1128 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		For a general introduction to Nippur, a major Babylonian city and the focus of the second activity, read the section "The Holy City of Nippur" from the essay The Nippur Expedition from the EDSITEment-reviewed website The Oriental Institute: The University of Chicago.
		Nippur, a principal religious center throughout the history of Mesopotamia, was the sacred city of the god Enlil, chief god in the Sumerian and Akkadian pantheon.
		An ancient map of Nippur, available as an Interactive Map of Nippur through the EDSITEment-reviewed Internet Public Library, reveals the impressive size (and presumably, the importance) of the religious center in Nippur as well as the infrastructure (such as docks and canals) of an important economic center.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=644 (2327 words)

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