Nipur
The mountains of Nipur are known from Assyrian inscriptions and, according to Leonard William King, correspond to today's Cudi Dağı north of the Silopi plain , east of Cizre .
Sennacherib led several campaigns here, which are documented by rock inscriptions. Before the Assyrian conquest, the mountains belonged to Ukku or Kumme . The annals of Aššur-nasir-apli II. (Ann. Col. 70–74) also mention the mountains. Aššur-nasir-apli was involved in fighting before he crossed the Tigris (at Cizre or Basorin ) and moved on to Katmuḫḫi .
The mountains are not to be confused with the Sumerian city of Nippur, southeast of Baghdad.
literature
- Karlheinz Kessler : Investigations into the historical topography of northern Mesopotamia . Wiesbaden 1980, p. 149.