(12.) Herodotus, 59-60; Nabonidus, "The Cylinder of Nabonidus from
Sippar, Chroncile of Nabonidus," in Glassner, 235.
While the rape-murder had initially been attributed to local anti-Iraqi forces by the neighbors who had responded to the fire, the news that it had in fact been perpetrated by Americans solidified the Janabi tribal allegiance to AQI in Iraq, enabling the establishment of a full-fledged training facility in the ruins of ancient
Sippar and the village.
Scurlock does not mention that known Late Babylonian medical compositions (series) from Uruk, Babylon, and
Sippar (fifth century BC) show a different organization of medical knowledge, constructed into pirsus 'divisions' ('chapters'), or into nishus 'excerpt (tablets)', while some manuscripts were even designated as coming from the family-houses (bitu) of healers (Panayotov 2018).
Seleucia on the Euphrates was probably located at the site of or in the vicinity of earlier
Sippar.
The oldest textual witnesses available originate from Assur and Kalhu, which is unexpected for a decidedly Babylonian text, whereas the youngest exemplars may come from Uruk and
Sippar. Tablets of known provenance were found in four different temples (at Kalhu, Me-Turnat,
Sippar, and Uruk) and in a palace.
The Arrows of the Sun: Armed Forces in
Sippar in the First Millennium B.C..
In a commentary on this text from Neo-Babylonian
Sippar we find the following explanations for some of the terms that appear in the above two lines:
Texts containing the "Decad" were found at Nippur, Ur, Kish, Isin,
Sippar, Babylon, Susa, Uruk, Larsa, and Meturan, which leads Delnero to a discussion of local or regional variation in chapter 3.
Das Onomastikon der Beamten am neubabylonischen Ebabbar-Tempel in
Sippar. ZA 91: 110-11.
A.56: who serves as temple overseer of
Sippar, Nippur, or Babylon,