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Sippar

American  
[si-pahr] / sɪˈpɑr /

noun

  1. an ancient Babylonian city on the Euphrates, in SE Iraq.


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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

There, with those men alone, I will hold Sippar against Gobryas—ay, and Kurush, too, if—" "Many things I have known thee do, Bel-shar-utsur; yet boaster wert thou never before.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

Of my own free will I go forth to Sippar; yet I have little thought that I shall return thence again.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

Gobryas had returned to the governorship of Sippar.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

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