Sippar

[si-pahr]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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Besides restoring the temples of the cities, or at least the principal ones, he restored all the chief temples of Babylonia, notably that at Sippar, the chief centre of the Sun-god worship, and the great temple-tower dedicated to Nebo at Borsippa.

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Like Sippar too, Babylon was situated in what was called the plain, the edina, of which Babylonia mainly consisted, and which is apparently the original of the Garden of Eden.

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“Year Sumulel the king built the wall of Sippar.”

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The people of Akkad raised a revolt; people were killed; Sippar was taken on the 14th day without fighting.

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