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Location

  • Iraq, Tell Abu Habbah
  • geo:33.058842,44.252171
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • -2500~ / -500~

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Ebabbara, Sippar [Zimbir]

data access 27921

 E-babbar -"the house of splendor, the temple of the city god, Shamash, the Sun God, which was called E-Babara by the Sumerians, Bit-Un by the Semites. A large number of cuneiform tablets were discoveded in there and the tablet of Shamash was discovered in clay box beetwen them.

See:

  1. Andrew R. George, House Most High. The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia, Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake 1993
  2. Morris Jastrow, Jr..Nebopolassar and the Temple to the Sun-God at Sippar, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, University of Chicago Press, 1899, pp. 65–86

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-07-06) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/27921
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Suggested citation: , E. , Ebabbara, Sippar [Zimbir]. https://vici.org/vici/27921, accessed 2026-09-28.