• Borsippa (Sumerian: BAD.SI.(A).AB.BAKI; Akkadian: Barsip and Til-Barsip) or Birs Nimrud (having been identified with Nimrod) is an archeological site in...
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    decline during the Hellenistic period. Nearby ancient sites are Kish, Borsippa, Dilbat, and Kutha. The earliest known mention of Babylon as a small town...
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    present in relation to the so-called "Nanaya Eurshaba", worshipped in Borsippa independently from Nabu. She was instead associated with the god Mār-bīti...
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  • Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: Erebidae Genus: Bocula Species: B. quadrilineata Binomial name Bocula quadrilineata Walker, 1858 Synonyms Borsippa quadrilineata...
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    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)...
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    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...
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  • Lepidoptera Superfamily: Noctuoidea Family: Erebidae Genus: Bocula Species: B. calthula Binomial name Bocula calthula Swinhoe, 1906 Synonyms Borsippa calthula...
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    cuneiform inscription "Nebuchadnezzar support Esagila temple and temple Ezida (Borsippa). Eldest son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon. Hecht Museum Haifa...
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    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...
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    Elish. The previous patron deity of Borsippa. Although Hammurabi recognized Tutu's dominion as extending over Borsippa and E-zida, Tutu became another name...
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    Bocula (redirect from Borsippa (moth))
    Family: Erebidae Subfamily: Rivulinae Genus: Bocula Guenée, 1852 Synonyms Borsippa Walker, 1858 Lacibisa Walker, [1863] Aramuna Moore, 1884 Eudragana Butler...
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    palm trees. Nebuchadnezzar also directed building efforts on the city of Borsippa, with several of his inscriptions recording restoration work on that city's...
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    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...
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    consisted of a few towns in the area near Babylon: Dilbat, Sippar, Kish, and Borsippa. By 1762 BC, Hammurabi managed to succeed in capturing the formidable power...
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    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...
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    including the cities of Isin, Larsa, Eshnunna, Kish, Lagash, Nippur, Borsippa, Ur, Uruk, Umma, Adab, Sippar, Rapiqum, and Eridu. His conquests gave the...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • throughout the East by Jupiter and Venus; Neba, the tutelary deity of Borsippa (Isaiah 46:1), shone in the sky as Mercury, and Nergal, transplanted from...
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    (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...
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    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...
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    Nuzi, Mari, Eshnunna, Dur-Kurigalzu, Der, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Susa, Borsippa, Nippur, Isin, Uruk, Larsa and Ur, from north to south. Note the relative...
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    (Tell Abu Hatab) Marad (Tell Wannat es-Sadum) Dilbat (Tell ed-Duleim) Borsippa (Birs Nimrud) Kutha (Tell Ibrahim) Der (al-Badra) Eshnunna (Tell Asmar)...
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    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...
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    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...
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    forth his chariotry, he headed dowstream toward Borsippa. He came down the dark way, he entered Borsippa. The vile Elamite toppled its sanctuary, he slew...
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    Muqayyar) the earliest capital of the country; and Babylon, with its suburb, Borsippa (Birs Nimrud), as well as the two Sippars (the Sepharvaim of Scripture...
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    Ibrahim) Jemdet Nasr (NI.RU) Kish (Tell Uheimir & Ingharra) Babilim (Babylon) Borsippa (Birs Nimrud) Malgium (Tulūl al-Fāj / Tell Yassir) Mashkan-shapir (Tell...
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    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...
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    adjacent to the ancient city of Babylon, and close to the ancient cities of Borsippa and Kish. It is situated in a predominantly agricultural region which is...
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