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SIPPARA (Zimbir in Sumerian, Sippar in Assyro-Babylonian) , an See also:ancient Babylonian See also:city on the See also:east See also:bank of the See also:Euphrates, See also:north of See also:Babylon. It was divided into two quarters, "Sippar of the See also:Sun-See also:god " (see See also:SHAMASH) and " Sippar of the goddess Anunit, " the former of which was discovered by Hormuzd See also:Rassam in 1881 at See also:Abu-Habba, 16 m. S.E. of See also:Bagdad. Two other Sippars are mentioned in the See also:inscriptions, one of them being " Sippar of See also:Eden, " which must have been an additional See also:quarter of the city. It is possible that one of them should be identified with Agade or See also:Akkad, the See also:capital of the first Semitic Babylonian See also:Empire. The two Sippars of the Sun-god and Anunit are referred to in the Old Testament as Sepharvaim. A large number of See also:cuneiform tablets and other monuments has been found in the ruins of the See also:temple of the *Sun-god which was called E-Babara by the Sumerians, See also:Bit-See also:Uri by the Semites. The Chaldaean See also:Noah is said by See also:Berossus to have buried the records_ of the antediluvian See also:world here—doubtless because the name of Sippar was supposed to be connected with sipru, " a See also:writing "—and according to Abydenus (Fr. 9) See also:Nebuchadrezzar excavated a See also:great See also:reservoir in the neighbourhood. Here too was the Babylonian See also:camp in the reign of Nabonidos, and See also:Pliny (N.H. vi. 3o) states that it was the seat of a university. See Hormuzd Rassam, Babylonian Cities (1888).

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