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See also:BORSIPPA (Barsip in the Babylonian and See also:Assyrian See also:inscriptions; Borsif in the See also:Talmud; mod. Birs or Birs-Nimrud) , the See also:Greek name of an See also:ancient See also:city about 15 m. S.W. of See also:Babylon and 10 m. from See also:Hillah, on the Nahr Hindieh, or Hindieh See also:canal, formerly known as " the See also:Euphrates of Borsippa," and even during the Arabic See also:period called " the See also:river of Birs." Borsippa was the See also:sister city of Babylon, and is often called in the inscriptions Babylon II., also the "city without equal." Its See also:patron See also:god was See also:Nebo or Nabu. Like Babylon Borsippa is not mentioned in the See also:oldest inscriptions, but comes into importance first after Khammurabi had made Babylon the See also:capital of the whole See also:land, somewhere before 2000 B.C. He built or rebuilt the See also:temple E-Zida at this See also:place, dedicating it, however, to See also:Marduk (See also:Bel-Merodach). But although Khammurabi himself does not seem to have honoured Nebo (q.v.), subsequent See also:kings recognized him as the deity of E-Zida and made him the son of Marduk (q.v.). Each new See also:year his See also:image was taken to visit his See also:father, in Babylon, who in his turn gave him escort homeward, and his temple was second in See also:wealth and importance only to E-Saggila, the temple of Marduk in Babylon. As with Babylon, so with Borsippa, the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Nebuchadrezzar was the period of its greatest prosperity. In See also:general Borsippa shared the See also:fate of Babylon, falling into decay after the time of See also:Alexander, and finally in the See also:middle ages into ruins. The site of the ancient city is represented by two large ruin mounds. Of these the See also:north-See also:westerly, the See also:lower of the two, but the larger in superficial See also:area, is called See also:Ibrahim Khalil, from a See also:tiara, or See also:shrine, of See also:Abraham, the friend of God, which stands on its highest point. According to Arabic See also:lore, based on Jewish legends, at this spot See also:Nimrod sought to throw Abraham into a fiery See also:furnace, from which he was saved by the See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace of God.
Excavations were first conducted here by the See also:French Expedition Scientifique en Mesopotamie in 1852, with small result. In 1879 and 188o Hormuzd See also:Rassam conducted more extensive, although-See also:BORZHOM
unsystematic, excavations in this See also:mound, finding a considerable quantity of inscribed tablets and the like, now in the See also:British Museum; but by far the greater See also:part of this ruin still remains unexplored. The See also:south-westerly mound, the Birs proper, is probably the most conspicuous and striking ruin in all See also:Irak. On the See also:top of a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill over too ft. high rises a pointed See also:mass of vitrified See also:brick split down the centre, over 40 ft. high, about which See also:lie huge masses of vitrified brick, some as much as 15 ft. in See also:diameter, and also single enamelled bricks, generally bearing an inscription of Nebuchadrezzar, See also:twisted, curled and broken, apparently by See also:great See also:heat. Jewish and Arabic tradition makes this the See also:Tower of See also:Babel, which was supposed to have been destroyed by See also:lightning. Excavations conducted here by See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Rawlinson in 1854 showed it to be the See also:stage tower or ziggurat, called the " See also:house of the seven divisions of See also:heaven and See also:earth," of E-Zida, the temple of Nebo. On a large See also:platform See also:rose seven solid terraces, each smaller than the one below it, the lowest being 272 ft. square and 26 ft. high. Each of these terraces was faced with bricks of a different See also:colour. The approach to this ziggurat was toward the north-See also:east, and on this See also:side See also:lay also the See also:principal rooms of the temple of which this was the tower. These rooms were partly excavated by Hormuzd Rassam in 1879-1880. In its final See also:form this temple and tower were the See also:work of Nebuchadrezzar, but from the See also:clay cylinders found by Sir Henry Rawlinson in two of the corners of the tower it appears that he restored an incomplete ziggurat of a former See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, " which was See also:long since fallen into decay." Some of the best authorities believe that it was this ambitious but incomplete and ruinous ziggurat, existing before the time of Nebuchadrezzar, which gave occasion to or
afforded See also:local See also:attachment for the Biblical See also:story of the Tower of Babel.
End of Article: BORSIPPA (Barsip in the Babylonian and Assyrian inscriptions; Borsif in the Talmud; mod. Birs or Birs-Nimrud)
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