Nippur (Sumerian: Nibru, often logographically recorded as 𒂗𒆤𒆠, EN.LÍLKI, "Enlil City;" Akkadian: Nibbur) was an ancient Sumerian city. It was the special...
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during the twenty-fourth century BC with the rise of Nippur. His cult fell into decline after Nippur was sacked by the Elamites in 1230 BC and he was eventually...
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The Poor Man of Nippur is an Akkadian story dating from around 1500 BC. It is attested by only three texts, only one of which is more than a small fragment...
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Sumer (redirect from Sumerian cultural centres: Eridu and Nippur)
cities: Uruk (Warka) Kish (Tell Uheimir and Ingharra) Ur (Tell al-Muqayyar) Nippur (Afak) Lagash (Tell al-Hiba) Girsu (Tello or Telloh) Umma (Tell Jokha) Hamazi...
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Nippur de Lagash (English: Nippur of Lagash) is an Argentine historical comic series, published between 1967 and 1998. It is set in the 23rd century BC...
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The Lament for Nippur, or the Lament for Nibru, is a Sumerian lament, also known by its incipit tur3 me nun-e ("After the cattle pen..."). It is dated...
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History of Sumer (redirect from Sumerian city-states: Eridu and Nippur)
Inana Girsu, E-ninnu, Ningirsu Umma, E-mah, Shara (son of Inana of Zabalam) Nippur, E-kur, Enlil Shuruppak, E-dimgalanna, Sud (variant of Ninlil, wife of Enlil)...
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Nippur. A first millennium bilingual hymn to Nippur links Babylon and Nippur together: Nippur is the city of Enlil, Babylon is his favorite. Nippur and...
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Lugal-zage-si (section Nippur vase of Lugalzagesi)
success, he then united Sumer briefly as a single kingdom. According to the Nippur vase of Lugalzagesi, Lugal-Zage-Si was the son of Ukush, governor of Umma:...
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Ninurta-Pāqidāt's Dog Bite, also known as The Tale of the Illiterate Doctor in Nippur, is a text in Akkadian cuneiform, recorded on clay Tablet W 23558 - IM 78552...
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Gula (goddess) (section Nippur)
In the following centuries, her cult spread to other cities, including Nippur, which eventually came to be regarded as her primary cult center, as well...
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Epic of Gilgamesh (section Nippur school tablet)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (/ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ/) is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh...
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moon god Nanna or the warrior god Ninurta. She was chiefly worshiped in Nippur and nearby Tummal alongside Enlil, and multiple temples and shrines dedicated...
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food rations to the needy. The city of Nippur was one of the most important cities in the Third Dynasty of Ur. Nippur is believed to be the religious center...
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Babylon Isin Kish Nippur Sippar Ur Uruk Dur-Kurigalzu Girsu The Kassites (/ˈkæsaɪts/) were people of the ancient Near East, who controlled Babylonia after...
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Eduba (section Scribal curriculum at Nippur)
certainly took place. The best example of this is House F in the city of Nippur. Nearly one and a half thousand fragments of tablets were found at this...
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flood") is an unidentified tell ("hill city") on the Kebar Canal, near Nippur in what is now Iraq. Tel Abib is mentioned by Ezekiel in Ezekiel 3:15: Then...
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that he was governor of Nippur before assuming the crown. This is supported by the fact that text show that he was crowned in Nippur, a process that included...
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Eridu (إريدو) Hatra (حضر) Kish (كيش) Lagash (لجش) Nineveh (ܢܝܢܘܐ) (نينوى) Nippur (نيبور) Nuzi (Nuzu) Samarra Shenna (Sinn Barimma) Sumer (سومر) Tell Ubaid...
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Halleluyah! (image) — Excerpt from translation in Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur. The pseudepigraphical 8th–10th centuries Alphabet of Ben Sira is considered...
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Gilgamesh, around 2500 BC. Ekur is generally associated with the temple at Nippur restored by Naram-Sin of Akkad and Shar-Kali-Sharri during the Akkadian...
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Ninisina (section Ninisina's Journey to Nippur)
Third Dynasty of Ur. In addition to Isin, she was also worshiped in Larak, Nippur and Lagash in these periods. In the following Isin-Larsa period, she served...
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Sargon of Akkad (section Nippur inscription)
is a tablet, in two fragments, of the Old Babylonian period recovered at Nippur in the University of Pennsylvania expedition in the 1890s. The tablet is...
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code (Ni 3191), an Old Babylonian period copy in two fragments found at Nippur, in what is now Iraq, was translated by Samuel Noah Kramer in 1952. These...
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Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise) (section Nippur)
suggests "Nippur was a city inhabited by gods not men, and this would suggest that it had existed from the very beginning." He discusses Nippur as the "first...
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cities of Nippur, Dur, Isin and Marad had been sacked by the marauding Elamites under their king, Kidin-Hutran III, and two of these, Nippur and Isin were...
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is homophonous with Mami, a goddess of birth known for example from the Nippur god list, leading some researchers to conflate them. However, it is generally...
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(CBS), tablet number 9205 from their excavations at the temple library at Nippur. This was translated by George Aaron Barton in 1918 and first published...
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of such a flood-myth narrative, known from tablets found in the ruins of Nippur in the late 1890s and translated by assyriologist Arno Poebel. Academic...
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Gansamannu. Kugbau (circa 2,500 BCE), a taverness from Kish chosen by the Nippur priesthood to become hegemonic ruler of Sumer, and in later ages deified...
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