Sippar

[ si-pahr ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Excavators have discovered at Sippar traces of a school which dates from the Hammurabi Dynasty.

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Hammurabi, besides his work at Sippar, builds a temple to Innanna at Hallabi.

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Next to Babylon, he was much concerned with making improvements in Sippar.

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A temple to Gula in Sippar was called E-ulla; that is, 'the beautiful house.'

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The temple to Shamash at Larsa, while not quite as old as that of Sippar, was quite as famous.

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