NIPPUR

nĭpoorˈ, ancient city of Babylonia, a N Sumerian settlement on the Euphrates. It was the seat of the important cult of the god Enlil, or Bel. Excavations at Nippur have yielded the remains of several temples that date from the middle of the 3d millennium b.c. and were later rebuilt and restored many times. Over 40,000 clay tablets found there serve as a primary source of information on Sumerian civilization. Assurbanipal erected a ziggurat in Nippur. Relics of the Persian and Parthian periods have also been unearthed at the site.

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books on: Nippur  - 409 results

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A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and Contents, Including the Biblical Theology
Book by James Hastings, John A. Selbie; T. & T. Clark, 1904
Subjects: Bible--Dictionaries
...consistently completed. The assigning of the local deity of Nippur to a position in the triad served to maintain his cult long after Nippur had lost its political supremacy. His temple at Nippur, known as E-kur, the mountain house, became a place...
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The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity - Vol. 1
Book by D. T. Potts; Clarendon Press, 1990
Subjects: Persian Gulf Region--Antiquities, Persian Gulf Region--History
...hypocoristicon of Enlil-kidinni, 53 was a governor of Nippur attested in other sources during the reign of...a mere functionary writing to his superior at Nippur. 55 An interesting pair of Nippur texts, BE 17/1. 31 and PBS 1/2. 71, dating...
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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Vol. 3
Book by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Everett F. Harrison, Roland K. Harrison, William Sanford Lasor, Lawrence T. Geraty, Edgar W. Smith; W.B. Eerdmans, 1979
Subjects: Bible--Dictionaries
Three brick stamps from Nippur. The brick at right says Naram-Sin...the last Sumerian king of Uruk, to Nippur in a neckstock, and Sumerian literature...desecration of the Ekur. The renown of Nippur is attested in The Poor Man of Nippur...
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The Pantheon of Uruk during the Neo-Babylonian Period
Book by Paul-Alain Beaulieu; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Assyro-Babylonian Religion, Erech (Extinct City)--Religion, Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian
...both as names of these goddesses and as epithets. At Nippur, for instance, Istar resided in the temple Ebaradurgarra as the goddess Queen-of-Nippur (?arrat-Nippur) and also bore the epithet sarrat Nippur,12 while...
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History of Babylonia and Assyria - Vol. 1
Book by Robert William Rogers; Eaton & Mains, 1901
Subjects: Assyria--History, Babylonia--History
...linked in the title of the kings who made Nippur, its near-by neighbor, the chief city...have not been certainly identified. 2 Nippur, on the other hand, is now the best...University of Pennsylvania expedition. Nippur was the oldest center of the worship of...
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journal articles on: Nippur  - 114 results

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Die Ninegalla-Hymne: Die Wohnungnahme Inannas in Nippur in Altbabylonischer Zeit
Journal article by Miguel Civil; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 120, 2000
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Die Ninegalla-Hymne: Die Wohnungnahme Inannas in Nippur in altbabylonischer Zeit (Book)--Reviews
...Hymne: Die Wohnungnahme Inannas in Nippur in altbabylonischer Zeit by Miguel Civil...Hymne: Die Wohnungnahme Inannas in Nippur in altbabylonischer Zeit. By HERMANN...information about the textual sources (all from Nippur) and the "score" (pp. 42-61) precede...
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Nippur in Late Assyrian Times
Journal article by M. Mandamayev; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews
Nippur in Late Assyrian Times by M. Mandamayev...commentary. These tablets were discovered at Nippur by the Oriental Institutes expedition under...constituted the archive of the governors of Nippur. They lack dates but, to judge from their...
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The Early Neo-Babylonian Governor's Archive from Nippur
Journal article by M. Mandamayev; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...Neo-Babylonian Governors Archive from Nippur by M. Mandamayev By STEVEN W. COLE. Oriental Institute Publications, vol. 114; Nippur, IV. Chicago: THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE...commentary. These tablets were discovered at Nippur by the Oriental Institutes expedition...
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A New Interpretation of the Nippur Music-instruction Fragments
Journal article by Jerome Colburn; Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 2009
A New Interpretation of the Nippur Music-instruction Fragments by Jerome...Babylonian music instruction fragments from Nippur "are difficult to piece together in...follows, the abbreviation NMI 1 (for Nippur Music Instructions 1) refers to N3354...
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Fifth Century Nippur: Texts of the Murasus and from Their Surroundings
Journal article by Matthew W. Stolper; Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 53, 2001
Fifth Century Nippur: Texts of the Murasus and from Their...4 The texts published here, all from Nippur, add to the Murasu archive in two ways...the status of the men entitled gaknu of Nippur and the city-governors entitled gandabakku...
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magazine articles on: Nippur  - 16 results

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The Shrine of Islam's Tragic Divisions
Magazine article by Corinne Atkins; History Today, Vol. 53, November 2003
Subjects: Iraq--History, Islam and politics--History, Islam--History, Islamic sects--History, Shiites--History, Sunnites--History, Talib, Ali ibn Abi--Behavior
...Mosques, visit Cresiphon Arch, Seleucia Go south to Sumerian and Babylonian sites, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Borsippar, Nippur, Uruk, Ur, Eridu. The Shil cities and Basra. Visit the march Arab sea. From Baghdad we travel north to Samarra, all the...
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Fabled Royal Graves of Ur Exhibit Opens Nationwide Three-year Tour in Southern California
Magazine article by Pat McDonnell; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XVIII, March 1999
Subjects: Archaeology, California, Egypt, History, Museums, Wooley, Leonard, Zettler, Richard
...the present-day Iraqi city of Nassariyah -- which H.C. Rawlinson had identified as Ur of the Chaldees, was chosen over Nippur in the fall of 1922. With the help of his faithful Arab assistant, Hamoudi, Woolley opened two trenches at Ur on Nov. 2...
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High (Professional) Anxiety? Image and Status in Records Management
Magazine article by J. Michael Pemberton; ARMA Records Management Quarterly, Vol. 30, January 1996
Subjects: Association of Records Managers & Administrators International, Associations, History, Image, Professionals, Records management, Studies, United States
...While Babylon was its best-known capital, other flourishing urban areas arose, with exotic names such as Ur, Uruk, Kish, Nippur, and Tell Ahmar. Among the physical remains of these cities are clay tablet repositories, bodies of records which suggest...
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Scientists outside History
Magazine article by Barbara Nimri Aziz; Natural History, Vol. 105, September 1996
Subjects: Archaeology, Iraq
...Iraq-McGuire Gibson, an archeologist at the University of Chicagos Oriental Institute. Gibson described his research at Nippur in southern Iraq, explaining how his team had identified layers of successive occupation within that city, dating as far back...
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Missiometrics 2005: a Global Survey of World Mission
Magazine article by David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, Peter F. Crossing; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 29, January 2005
Subjects: Christianity, Missionaries, Polls & surveys, Religious missions
...accounting, banking, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and cosmogonies. Libraries arose in most great temples (BC 2500 Nippur, also in China, Egypt, Greece, Rome). The Assyrian conqueror Ashurbanipal (BC 650) maintained a personal archive of...
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newspaper articles on: Nippur  - 4 results

 
 
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Robbing the Cradle of Civilization; International Campaign Fights Widespread Looting
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 29, 2005
Subjects: Gibson, Mcguire
...goddess of love and war. In south-central Iraq, the site of Nippur, an important religious city in ancient Babylonia, was robbed...ancient world. Photograph courtesy of the World Monuments Fund Nippur in south-central Iraq was an important religious city in ancient...
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Detectives of the Past (Part 1)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, June 26, 2010
Subjects: Archaeology
...which date back before the time of Abraham have been found some years ago by archaeologist in the ruins of Babylon, Nineveh, Nippur, and Ashur? The striking similarity with the creation story in the Book of Genesis is so obvious. (TO BE CONTINUED...
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100 Greatest Maps in the World on Exhibit
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 16, 2007
...America. Pieces confirmed for display include a 3,500-year old clay tablet detailing walls, gates and palaces in the town of Nippur in what is now Iraq; three drawings by Leonardo da Vinci rarely lent from the British royal collection; the map Charles Lindbergh...
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Wish You Were Here, Greetings from Iraq; RETIRED POSTMASTER ON HOLIDAY IN IRAQ - OH, AND HE'S BEEN TO AFGHANISTAN TOO
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), March 25, 2009
Subjects: Moore, Gordon E.
...Babylon-Bordippa-Hilla Day 10: Hilla-Kish-Ukheider-Kerbala Day 11: Kerbala-El Khifal-Kufa-Najaf Day 12: Najaf-Nippur-Warka (Uruk)-Larsa-Nasiriya Day 13: Nasiriya-Ur-Eridu-Tel Ubaid-Nasiriya Day 14: Marsh area to Basra Day 15...


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encyclopedia articles on: Nippur  - 4 results

 
 
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Nippur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NIPPUR nipoor , ancient city of Babylonia, a N...the god Enlil, or Bel. Excavations at Nippur have yielded the remains of several temples...civilization. Assurbanipal erected a ziggurat in Nippur. Relics of the Persian and Parthian periods...
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Hilprecht, Hermann Volrath
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...curator (1887 1911) of the Semitic Dept. of its museum. He was scientific director of four expeditions (1895 1914) to Nippur, present-day Iraq, where he oversaw the excavation of thousands of Sumerian historical and literary texts from the Temple...
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Mesopotamia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Telloh ( Lagash ). The Sumerians (see Sumer ), the inhabitants of these city-states of S Mesopotamia, were unified at Nippur , where they gathered together to worship Enlil, the wind god. The famous first dynasty of Ur came at the end of the early...
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Inscription
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Babylonia ; Assyria ; Hittites ; Elam ; for notes on examples of epigraphic treasure-troves, see Uruk ; Lagash ; Nineveh ; Nippur ; Susa ; Tell el Amarna ; Bogazkoy ). An Eastern congener of Mesopotamian epigraphy is found in the seal inscriptions on faience...


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