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Sippar
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Sippar (Sumerian: , Zimbir) (also Sippir or Sippara) was an ancient Near Eastern Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates river. Its tell is located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah near Yusufiyah in Iraq's Baghdad Governorate, some north of Babylon and southwest of Baghdad. The city's ancient name, Sippar, could also refer to its sister city, Sippar-Amnanum (located at the modern site of Tell ed-Der); a more specific designation for the city here referred to as Sippar was Sippar-Yaḫrurum (Sippar-Jaḫrurum). The name comes from the Amorite Yaḫrurum tribe that li
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Sippar, also known as Tell Abu Habbah, is an archaeological site and human settlement located in Iraq. It lies within Baghdad Governorate, specifically in the Mahmudiya District near the city of Samit Ali. The site is situated at an elevation of 42 meters and is associated with Sumerian culture.
The area contains the ruins of the Ebabbar Temple. According to available data, the population of the site is listed as 0. It is described in the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Sippar
- Ancient site.native_name
- Sippar
- Ancient site.map_type
- Iraq
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
- Ancient site.region
- Mesopotamia
- Ancient site.type
- settlement
- Ancient site.epochs
- Early Dynastic, Old Babylonian, Kassite, Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1880-1881, 1894, 1972-1973, 1978-2002
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Hormuzd Rassam, Jean-Vincent Scheil, H. Gasche, Walid al-Jadir
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- History
- Early Bronze Age
- Akkadian period
- Middle Bronze Age
- Middle Bronze I
- Middle Bronze II (c. 1820-1587 BC)
- Late Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Neo-Babylonian period
- Neo-Assyrian period
- Achaemenid period
- Speculation
- Archaeology
- Gallery
- List of rulers
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
Sippar (Sumerian: , Zimbir) (also Sippir or Sippara) was an ancient Near Eastern Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates river. Its tell is located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah near Yusufiyah in Iraq's Baghdad Governorate, some north of Babylon and southwest of Baghdad. The city's ancient name, Sippar, could also refer to its sister city, Sippar-Amnanum (located at the modern site of Tell ed-Der); a more specific designation for the city here referred to as Sippar was Sippar-Yaḫrurum (Sippar-Jaḫrurum). The name comes from the Amorite Yaḫrurum tribe that lived in the area along with the Amorite Amnanum tribe. In Sippar was the site where the Babylonian Map of the World was found.
==History== While pottery finds indicate that the site of Sippar was in use as early as the Uruk period, substantial occupation occurred only in the Early Dynastic and Akkadian Empire periods of the 3rd millennium BC, the Old Babylonian and Kassite periods of the 2nd millennium BC, and the Neo-Babylonian times of the 1st millennium BC. Lesser levels of use continued into the time of the Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian Empires.
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