Borsippa
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Borsippa
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Birs Nimrud
- Ancient site.map_type
- Iraq
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.map_size
- 200
- Ancient site.location
- Babylon Governorate, Iraq
- Ancient site.type
- settlement
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1854, 1879-1881, 1902, 1980-2003
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Hormuzd Rassam, Robert Koldewey, Helga Piesl-Trenkwalder, Wilfred Allinger-Csollich
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruined
- Ancient site.ownership
- Public
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Seleucid Empire
- Located in
- Babylon
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- Ruins of the ziggurat and temple of the god Nabu at Borsippa, Babel Governorate, Iraq. 6th century BC.jpg
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Borsippa (Sumerian: BAD.SI.(A).AB.BAKI or Birs Nimrud, having been identified with Nimrod) is an archeological site in Babylon Governorate, Iraq, built on both sides of a lake about southwest of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates. It lies 15 kilometers from the ancient site of Dilbat.
It is today one of the most vividly identifiable surviving ziggurats, identified in the later Arabic culture with the Tower of Babel due to King Nebuchadnezzar referring to it as the "Tower of Borsippa" or "tongue tower", as stated in the stele recovered on site in the 19th century. However, modern scholarship concludes that the Babylonian builders of the ziggurat erected it as a religious edifice in honour of the local god Nabu, called the "son" of Babylon's Marduk, as would be appropriate for Babylon's lesser sister-city.