Sippar
Americannoun
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One of the key goals of the LMU-Baghdad collaboration is to decipher hundreds of cuneiform tablets from the renowned Sippar Library and ensure their preservation.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
He went on to find and excavate the Babylonian city of Sippar, to discover the great bronze doors of the palace of Balawat, and to send more than 70,000 cuneiform tablets back to London.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2015
If Gobryas knows that thou art in Sippar the city will surely be assaulted, and will as surely fall.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
Therefore it is Sharrukin's wish, and mine, that, for thine own sake, thou shouldst leave Sippar secretly as soon as possible—to-night, if thou wilt.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
Another tablet, dated in Nabonidus's accession year, indicates that the temple supplied water, for a fixed sum, to a part of Sippar called “the city of the Sun.”
From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches
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