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Sippar

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Sippar: one of the most important cities in northern Babylonia.

Situated in the northwest of Babylonia
Founded in the fourth millennium BCE; twin settlement Sippar-Jahrurum and Sippar-Amnanum)
According to the Sumerian King List one of the cities that were already in existence prior to the Great Flood; king Enmen-dur-ana ruled in Sippar for 21,000 years
Ebabbar: main cult center of the sun god (Šamaš); there is a ziggurat
Many texts from the Old Babylonian period (i.e., the Middle Bronze Age) and from the New Babylonian Period
c.860: Nabu-apla-iddina orders restaurations to the Ebabbar
c.625: Nabopolassar orders repairs to the Ebabbar
c.599: Nebuchadnezzar orders repairs to the Ebabbar^note
542: Nabonidus orders repairs to the temple of Šamaš
331 BCE: During his visit to Sippar, Alexander the Great announced he would not allow the sack of Babylon
Probably renamed Seleucia on the Euphrates

Sippar, Cylinder with a building inscription from the reign of Hammurabi	Sippar, Babylonian world map	Sippar, Temple of Šamaš, Tablet of the Sun god	Nabonidus Cylinder from Sippar
Sippar, Contract from the reign of Xerxes about a canal