Sippar
 
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Sippar and the surrounding area |
Sippar ( Sumerian Zimbir , Biblically perhaps Sepharvaim , today Tell Abū Ḥabbah ) was an ancient city first mentioned in Sumer .
Excavation history
Tell Abū Ḥabbah was visited by Hormuzd Rassam in December 1880 and identified as Sippar. Almost immediately after the excavations began in 1881, the Sun God tablet or Abu-Habbah tablet, which dates from the reign of Nabû-apla-iddina , was discovered. In the meantime, a large number of cuneiform texts have been discovered in Sippar .
history
Sippar was about 60 kilometers north of Babylon and 16 kilometers southwest of what is now Baghdad on the eastern side of the Euphrates . The city was divided into two parts: Sippar the sun god and Sippar the Ishtar . The place was home to Utu as the main god and was named in inscriptions, among other things, Sippar of Eden . The temple of the sun god Shamash was known under the Sumerian name Ebabbar . The associated inscription was dated 1831 BC. Dated.
See also
Notes and individual references
- ^ H. Rassam, Recent Discoveries of Ancient Babylonian Cities, TSBA 8, 1885, 172-80
- ↑ M. Jastrow, Jr., On the Assyrian kudiru and the Ring of the Sun-god in the Abu-Habba Tablet. Proceedings of the American Oriental Society at Philadelphia 1888, 95-98; M. Jastrow, Jr., Nebopolassar and the Temple to the Sun-god at Sippar, American Journal of Semitic Literature 15, 1899, 65-86
- ↑ Benjamin Bromberg: The Origin of Banking: Religious Finance in Babylonia in The Journal of Economic History 2, No. 1 , 1942, pp. 77-88.
literature
- Robert Rollinger: From Sumer to Homer - Festschrift for Manfred Schretter on his 60th birthday on February 25, 2004 - , Ugarit-Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-934628-66-4