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	Sippar
		Coordinates: 33.058829311599Â° N 44.252153346703Â° E Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habbah, Sumerian Zimbir "bird city") was an ancient Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates, some 60 km north of Babylon.
		It was divided into two quarters, "Sippar of the Sun-god" and "Sippar of the goddess Anunit," the former of which was discovered by Hormuzd Rassam in 1881 at Abu-Habba, 16 miles southeast of Baghdad.
		Sippar is thought to have contained the world's oldest bank, the temple of Shamash, which was in operation until at least 1831 BC.
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /wiki/Sippar (504 words)

	Sippar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sippar (Zimbir in Sumerian, Sippar in Assyro-Babylonian, coordinates: 33.058829311599° N 44.252153346703° E) was an ancient Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates, north of Babylon.
		It was divided into two quarters, "Sippar of the Sun-god" and "Sippar of the goddess Anunit," the former of which was discovered by Hormuzd Rassam in 1881 at Abu-Habba, 16 miles southeast of Baghdad.
		Sippar is called Sepharvaim in the Old Testament, which alludes to the two quarters of the city by its dual form.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sippar (287 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sippar
		Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habbah, Sumerian Zimbir "bird city") was an ancient Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates, some 60 km north of Babylon.
		Sippar is called Sepharvaim in the Old Testament, which alludes to the two quarters of the city by its dual form.
		Sippar is thought to have contained the world's oldest bank, the temple of Shamash, which was in operation until at least 1831 BC.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sippar (359 words)

	SIPPARA (Zimbir in Sum... - Online Information article about SIPPARA (Zimbir in Sum...
		SHAMASH) and " Sippar of the goddess Anunit, " the former of which was discovered by Hormuzd See also:
		Two other Sippars are mentioned in the See also:
		The two Sippars of the Sun-god and Anunit are referred to in the Old Testament as Sepharvaim.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SIPPARA_Zimbir_in_Sumerian_Sipp.html (385 words)

	Agade
		It is possible that the name Agade may mean "crown (aga) of fire (de)"[1] in allusion to Istar[?], "the brilliant goddess," the tutelar deity of the morning and evening star and the goddess of war and love, whose cult was observed in very early times in Agade.
		It is significant in this connexion that there were two cities named Sippar, one under the protection of Shamash, the sun-god, and one under this Anunit, a fact which points strongly to the probable proximity of Sippar and Agade.
		One theory held (as of 1911) that Agade was situated opposite Sippar on the left bank of the Euphrates, and was probably the oldest part of the city of Sippar.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ag/Agade.html (367 words)

	Akkad - LoveToKnow 1911
		This fact is again attested by Nabonidus, whose record 5 mentions that the Istar worship of Agade was later superseded by that of the goddess Anunit, another personification of the Istar idea, whose shrine was at Sippar.
		It is significant in this connexion that there were two cities named Sippar, one under the protection of Shamash, the sun-god, and one under this Anunit, a fact which points strongly tothe probable proximity of Sippar and Agade.
		In fact, it has been thought that Agade-Akkad was situated opposite Sippar on the left bank of the Euphrates, and was probably the oldest part of the city of Sippar.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Akkad (394 words)

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		Kooperation bei archäologischen Feldforschungen der Universität Baghdad in Sippar (Abu Habbah)
		Die Forschungen und Ausgrabungen der Universität Baghdad in Sippar dienen insbesondere der Ausbildung des akademischen Nachwuchses.
		In dieser Zeit erfolgten auch Grabungen in einem ausgedehnten Wohnbezirk aus der altbabylonischen Zeit sowie in einem Tiefschnitt durch die Siedlungschichten des 3.
	www.archaeologie-online.com /cgi-bin/links2/jump.cgi?ID=4977 (562 words)

	"The Arrival" Part 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sippar was the sixth city of the Star Gods.
		The bend in the Euphrates River, where Sippar (the spaceport) was to be established, was one of the richest know sources in antiquity of surface bitumen, petroleum products that seeped up through natural wells, and could be collected from the surface without any deep drilling or digging.
		Having selected the best location for their space port (Sippar), they laid out the other settlements in a pattern outlining the vital flight path to it.
	www.strayreality.com /Lanis_Strayreality/The_Arrival_Part4.htm (1924 words)

	Catalog Page for PIA03215
		Terrain units and topography of the area where a bright swath called Erech Sulcus intersects northern Sippar Sulcus on Jupiter's moon Ganymede are shown in these two frames derived from images of Jupiter's moon Ganymede by NASA's Galileo and Voyager spacecraft.
		The left frame (a) is a mosaic of images taken by Galileo with a resolution of 140 meters (460 feet) per pixel.
		A portion of Sippar Sulcus, nearly perpendicular to Erech Sulcus, lies to the south.
	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA03215 (281 words)

	Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus \| Explore & Learn \| The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Then Larak was abandoned and (the seat of) kingship was taken to Sippar.
		In Sippar Enmendurana became king and reigned for 21,000 years.
		Then Sippar was abandoned and (the seat of) kingship was taken to (the city of) Shuruppak.
	www.metmuseum.org /explore/First_Cities/writing_meso_object_330.R.htm (385 words)

	Myths of Babylon and Assyria: Chapter XI. The Golden Age of Babylonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This was probably due to the changed political conditions which brought about the ascendancy for a time of Larsa, the seat of the Sumerian sun cult, and of Sippar, the seat of the Akkadian sun cult.
		He was succeeded by Sumu-la-ilu, a deified monarch, who moved from Sippar to Babylon, the great wall of which he either repaired or entirely reconstructed in his fifth year.
		By so doing he not only afforded the pious full freedom and opportunity to perform their religious ordinances, but also promoted the material welfare of his subjects, for the temples were centres of culture and the priests were the teachers of the young.
	www.earth-history.com /Babylon/myths/mba17.htm (5054 words)

	Looters may have destroyed priceless cuneiform archive: 4/19/03
		The Sippar Library, discovered in 1986 at a well-known neo-Babylonian site near Baghdad, was one of the archive's crown jewels.
		UCLA Assyriologist Robert Englund noted that while some of the Sippar material was similar, at least in part, to works in earlier finds, "the vast majority of at least 100,000 texts in the archive are unique, very poorly documented and barely studied, if at all.
		The extent of the damage is not yet known, but experts at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting in Paris Thursday confirmed that looters smashed or stole thousands of tablets.
	www.s-t.com /daily/04-03/04-19-03/a02wn014.htm (1177 words)

	Akkad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Akkad (or Agade) was a city and its region of northern Mesopotamia, situated on the left bank of the Euphrates, between Sippar and Kish (located in present-day Iraq, ca.
		It is significant in this connection that there were two cities named Sippar, one under the protection of Shamash, the sun-god, and one under Anunit, suggesting proximity of Sippar and Agade.
		One theory held (as of 1911) was that Agade was situated opposite Sippar on the left bank of the Euphrates, and was probably the oldest part of the city of Sippar.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Akkad (527 words)

	Shinar - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sippar or Sippar-Aruru (-Ya'ruru), possibly including Accad (Genesis 10:10), some distance Southwest of Bagdad.
		It is the modern 'Abu-habbah, "father of grain." Though it seems to have fallen early under the dominion of the Semites, it was at first Sumerian, as its native name, Zimbir, and the ideographic writing thereof show.
		It is said to have been in Sippara (Sippar) that Ut-napistim, the Babylonian Noah, buried the records before entering the ark.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T8069 (2207 words)

	Sippar (Iraq) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Excavations have revealed a walled city with a small ziggurat in the centre surrounded by a group of public buildings.
		He found the 'Tablet of Shamash', which identified the city as Sippar and the temple in which he was digging as dedicated to the city's patron god Shamash.
		Evidence now shows that Sippar was occupied from the Uruk period (fourth millennium BC) until the revolt against the Persian king, Xerxes, in 481 BC.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=ENC383 (243 words)

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		Sippar, der babylonische Hauptkultort des Sonnengottes Schamasch, gehört zu den ältesten und wichtigsten mesopotamischen Kultzentren.
		Schamasch ist als Schutzgottheit gegen die Finsternis und das Böse, als Gott der Gerechtigkeit, als oberster Richter und damit auch als Schutzgott des Königtums eine der wichtigsten Gottheiten der mesopotamischen Reiche.
		Wissenschaftliches Ziel sind die Bestimmung verschiedener Funktionsbereiche der Stadt sowie eine detailliertere Kenntnis diachroner Geschichtsabläufe der Stadt Sippar.
	www.dainst.org /index.php?id=2896 (562 words)

	2006 - 2007 - S7 - S8 Akkadien : Textes de la " bibliothèque " de Sippar
		Les fouilles de Sippar conduites au nord-ouest de l'esplanade de la ziggourat par l'université de Baghdad à partir de 1985 ont dégagé plusieurs pièces d'un temple d'époque néo-babylonienne appartenant au complexe religieux de Shamash.
		Tablets from the Sippar Library, V. An Incantation from M_s pî, Iraq 57, 1995, p.
		Tablets from the Sippar library X. A dedication of Zabaya of Larsa, Iraq 64, 2002, p.
	ghhat.univ-lyon2.fr /imprimersans.php3?id_article=38 (257 words)

	Wikinfo \| Akkad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is possible that the name AGA.DE means "Crown of Fire"[1] in allusion to Ishtar, "the brilliant goddess", whose cult was observed in very early times in Agade.
		This is suggested by the writings of Nabonidus, whose record [2] mentions that Ishtar worship of Agade was later superceded by that of the goddess Anunit, whose shrine was at Sippar.
		It is significant in this connection that there were two cities named Sippar, one under the protection of Shamash, the sun-god, and one under Anunit,suggesting proximity of Sippar and Agade.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Akkad (509 words)

	Detail Page
		The worship of the sun gave ancient Sippar its claim to fame, for the city was the home of the most revered temple to the sun-god (Utu in Sumerian, and Shamash in Akkadian).
		The everyday spiritual and commercial activities of the temple are illustrated by tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets that have been uncovered, many still stacked in the brick wall-cabinets where they were stored.
		The city was strategically located on the Euphrates where it comes closest to the Tigris; indeed, the Euphrates was often called "the Sippar River." To better fortify his capital city of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar constructed an east-west wall from river to river just north of Sippar.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=MESP0049 (294 words)

	Anammelech (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		First, there is no evidence in cuneiform literature that would point to the presence of human sacrifice, by fire or otherwise, as part of the ritual; nor has it been shown that the sculptures or bas-reliefs deny this thesis.
		Much depends upon the identification of "Sepharvaim"; if, as some scholars hold, Sepharvaim and Sippar are one and the same cities, the two deities referred to are Babylonian.
		It is improbable, as some would urge, that Adrammelech is a secondary title of the tutelary god of Sippar; then it would have to be shown that Anu enjoyed special reverence in this city which was especially consecrated to the worship of the Sun-god.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/500 (558 words)

	Advice to a Prince - www.GatewaysToBabylon.com
		The aim of the text is clearly to protect the rights of the citizens of Sippar, Nippur and Babylon from taxation, forced labour and misappropriation of their property.
		If he improperly convicts a citizen of Sippar, but acquits a foreigner, Shamash, judge of heaven and earth, 10.
		If he gives the fodder of the citizens of Sippar, Nippur and Babylon to his own steeds, 33.
	www.gatewaystobabylon.com /myths/texts/life/adviceprince.html (1069 words)

	Sippar - NSwiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sippar is a Cree name, is one of the oldest cities on Dalmenian ground.
		Sippar is the cultural centre of a special form of Christianity called Invertianity.
		Several beautiful temples to Budda and God are here, most known is the temple of Taderekansa.
	ns.goobergunch.net /wiki/index.php/Sippar (77 words)

	Cylinder of Nabonidus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This clay cuneiform cylinder was discovered in the Temple of Shamash at Sippar.
		It records the pious reconstruction by Nabonidus (reigned 555-539 BC) of the temples of the moon-god Sin in Harran and of the sun-god Shamash and goddess Anunitum at Sippar.
		He tells us that during the work at Sippar, inscriptions of older kings Naram-Sin (2254-2218 BC) and Shagaraki-shuriash (1245-1233 BC) were discovered, and Nabonidus offers dates that considerably exaggerate their age.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ4597 (261 words)

	The Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar
		The Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar is a foundation text in which king Nabonidus of Babylonia (556-539) describes how he carefully -after checking older foundation texts- repaired three temples:
		the shrine of the warrior goddess Anunitu in Sippar.
		One copy was excavated in Babylon, in the royal palace, and is now in Berlin.
	www.livius.org /na-nd/nabonidus/cylinder.html (1264 words)

	Utu / ∫amaš / Shamash - Ancient Near East.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Akkadian traditions vary in regarding him either as the son of Anu (An) or of Enlil.
		The consort of the sun god was Šerida - in Akkadian, Aya - whilst his assistant, charioteer and (according to some traditions) his son was Bunene, a minor god worshipped at Sippar and Uruk from the Old Babylonian period onwards, and later still at Aššur.
		The two main Sumerian temples of Utu were located at Larsa in Sumeria and at Sippar in Akkad - both were called E-Babbar (the "White House").
	www.ancientneareast.net /religion_mesopotamian/gods/utu_shamash.html (261 words)

	The Sumerian King List
		The three kings ruled a total of 108,000 years and then kingship was removed to Larak.
		In Larak, Ensipazianna ruled 28,800 years before kingship was removed to Sippar.
		In Sippar, Enmeduranna ruled 21,000 years and then Sippar was abandoned and its kingship removed to Shuruppak.
	www.jameswbell.com /a002kinglist.html (1609 words)

	Lesson 5
		When in 539 B.C. Cyrus, the Persian king, marched against Babylon, King Nabonidus, of Babylon, met him with his forces at Opis, on the Tigris, in an attempt to prevent Cyrus from crossing the river.
		Cyrus captured Sippar without a fight in October of 539 B.C. According to the Babylonian chronicle, Nabonidus fled south.
		Belshazzar, his son, stayed in Babylon, about thirty-five miles south of Sippar, trusting in its strong fortifications.
	www.ssnet.org /qrtrly/eng/04d/less05.html (3064 words)

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