Borsippa (Sumerian: BAD.SI.(A).AB.BAKI or Birs Nimrud, having been identified with Nimrod) is an archeological site in Babylon Governorate, Iraq, built...

decline during the Hellenistic period. Nearby ancient sites are Kish, Borsippa, Dilbat, and Kutha. The earliest known mention of Babylon as a small town...

palm trees. Nebuchadnezzar also directed building efforts on the city of Borsippa, with several of his inscriptions recording restoration work on that city's...

Elish. The previous patron deity of Borsippa. Although Hammurabi recognized Tutu's dominion as extending over Borsippa and E-zida, Tutu became another name...

existed in this settlement. Evidence for the worship of Sin in nearby Borsippa is available from the Neo-Babylonian period and late sources, though he...

present in relation to the so-called "Nanaya Eurshaba", worshipped in Borsippa independently from Nabu. She was instead associated with the god Mār-bīti...

Diagnostic Handbook written by the ummânū, or chief scholar, Esagil-kin-apli of Borsippa, during the reign of the Babylonian king Adad-apla-iddina (1069–1046 BC)...

the son of the god Marduk. Nabu was worshipped in Babylon's sister city Borsippa, from where his statue was taken to Babylon each New Year so that he could...

Nippur (Afak)SH Marad (Tell Wannat es-Sadum)S Dilbat (Tell ed-Duleim)S Borsippa (Birs Nimrud)M Larak (probably Tell al-Wilayah)SCU Kish (Tell Uheimir and...

traditional Akkadian for Antiochus I Soter, c. 250 BCE. Discovered in Borsippa, it is now located in the British Museum (BM 36277). The text has been...

including the cities of Isin, Larsa, Eshnunna, Kish, Lagash, Nippur, Borsippa, Ur, Uruk, Umma, Adab, Sippar, Rapiqum, and Eridu. His conquests gave the...

millennium BCE indicate she was venerated alongside Nabu in cities such as Borsippa and Kalhu. The theonym Tashmetum has Akkadian origin. It is derived from...

Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: Erebidae Genus: Bocula Species: B. quadrilineata Binomial name Bocula quadrilineata Walker, 1858 Synonyms Borsippa quadrilineata...

inscriptions from Borsippa, or an unidentified local deity who came to be equated with her. A late cultic calendar presumed to come from either Borsippa or Babylon...

his enemies, and also rebuilt the walls of northern cities such as Kish, Borsippa and Babylon itself while leaving the walls of southern cities, such as...

Bocula xanthostola is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by George Hampson in 1926. It is found in Sri Lanka, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and...

In the same month, a second rebel king, Bel-shimanni, was recognised in Borsippa and Dilbat (south of Babylon). Shamash-eriba was still in control of Sippar...

Nabonidus, who had retreated to Sippar following his defeat at Opis, fled to Borsippa. Around 12 October, Persian general Gubaru's troops entered Babylon, again...

(Belshazzar), son of the king. Although Belshazzar is acting as a regent, the formal date shows that Nabonidus is still the reigning king. From Borsippa, Iraq...

adjacent to the ancient city of Babylon, and close to the ancient cities of Borsippa and Kish. It was once a major centre of Islamic scholarship and education...

origin of his name are uncertain. He was originally the tutelary god of Borsippa, near Babylon, and appears in the name of an ensi (governor) of the area...

They were found not only in Susa but also in Babylon, Nineveh, Assur, Borsippa, Nippur, Sippar, Ur, Larsa, and more. Copies were created during Hammurabi's...

Lepidoptera Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: Erebidae Genus: Bocula Species: B. calthula Binomial name Bocula calthula Swinhoe, 1906 Synonyms Borsippa calthula...

Society. p. 94. Cf. The Cylinder of Antiochus I from the Ezida temple in Borsippa (BM 36277), p.4 by M. Stol and R.J. van der Spek and Antiochus I 01 by...

Dūr-Katlimmu, Assur, Arrapha, Terqa, Nuzi, Mari, Eshnunna, Dur-Kurigalzu, Der, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Susa, Borsippa, Nippur, Isin, Uruk, Larsa and Ur...

Shamash-eriba seized Babylon itself and other nearby cities, such as Borsippa and Dilbat, and was only defeated in March 481 BC after a lengthy siege...

translated in 1889. The tablet is usually thought to have originated in Borsippa. In 1995, a new section of the tablet was discovered, at the point of the...

cuneiform inscription "Nebuchadnezzar support Esagila temple and temple Ezida (Borsippa). Eldest son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon. Hecht Museum Haifa...

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(Akkadian "The town of Judah"), which was "presumably in the vicinity of Borsippa". The earliest document in the collection dates back to 572 BCE, about...