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SIPPARA (Zimbir in Sumerian, Sippar in Assyro-Babylonian)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 151 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SIPPARA (Zimbir in Sumerian, Sippar in Assyro-Babylonian) , 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 " (see
SHAMASH
 ) and " Sippar of the goddess Anunit, " the former of which was discovered by Hormuzd
Rassam
  in 1881 at Abu-Habba, 16 m. S.E. of Bagdad. Two other Sippars are mentioned in the
inscriptions
 , one of them being " Sippar of Eden, " which must have been an additional
quarter
  of the city. It is possible that one of them should be identified with Agade or Akkad, the
capital
  of the first Semitic Babylonian
Empire
 . The two Sippars of the Sun-god and Anunit are referred to in the Old Testament as Sepharvaim. A large number of cuneiform tablets and other monuments has been found in the ruins of the temple of the *Sun-god which was called E-Babara by the Sumerians, Bit-Uri by the Semites. The Chaldaean Noah is said by Berossus to have buried the records_ of the antediluvian world heredoubtless because the name of Sippar was supposed to be connected with sipru, " a writing "and according to Abydenus (Fr. 9)
Nebuchadrezzar
  excavated a
great
  reservoir in the neighbourhood. Here too was the Babylonian camp in the reign of Nabonidos, and Pliny (N.H. vi. 3o) states that it was the seat of a university.
See Hormuzd
Rassam
 , Babylonian Cities (1888). (A. H. S.)


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