Nippur (Sumerian: Nibru, often logographically recorded as 𒂗𒆤𒆠, EN.LÍLKI, "Enlil City;" Akkadian: Nibbur) was an ancient Sumerian city. It was the special...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

Eridu (إريدو) Hatra (حضر) Kish (كيش) Lagash (لجش) Nineveh (ܢܝܢܘܐ) (نينوى) Nippur (نيبور) Nuzi (Nuzu) Samarra Shenna (Sinn Barimma) Sumer (سومر) Tell Ubaid...

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...

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...

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...

Babylon Isin Kish Nippur Sippar Ur Uruk Dur-Kurigalzu Girsu The Kassites (/ˈkæsaɪts/) were people of the ancient Near East, who controlled Babylonia after...

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...

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...

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...

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...

sheep and grain and the Debate between Winter and Summer, also found at Nippur. Other flood myths appear in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Genesis creation...

cries for justice." The first copy of the code, in two fragments found at Nippur, in what is now Iraq, was translated by Samuel Kramer in 1952. These fragments...

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...

Halleluyah! (image) — Excerpt from translation in Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur. The pseudepigraphical 8th–10th centuries Alphabet of Ben Sira is considered...

The Epic of Gilgamesh (/ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ/) is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh...

Sasanian Empire (226-636), primarily from the Jewish diaspora settlement in Nippur. These bowls were used in magic to protect against evil influences such...

period were Eridu, Bad-tibira, Larsa, Sippar, Shuruppak, Uruk, Kish, Ur, Nippur, Lagash, Girsu, Umma, Hamazi, Adab, Mari, Isin, Kutha, Der and Akshak. The...

into the sacred city of Nippur and causing a disturbance. The disturbance causes a flood, which forces the resident gods of Nippur to take shelter in the...

danger, (the citizens of his city requested from Astar in Eanna, Enlil in Nippur, Dagan in Tuttul, Ninhursag in Kes, Ea in Eridu, Sin in Ur, Samas in Sippar...

Ancient China. Mesopotamia housed historically important cities such as Uruk, Nippur, Nineveh, Assur and Babylon, as well as major territorial states such as...