Article: Nippur V; the early dynastic to Akkadian transition, the area WF sounding at Nippur.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Augusta McMahon with McGuire Gibson, Robert D. Biggs, David ...
Antiquity;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... amp; K. ASLIHAN YENER. Nippur V. The Early Dynastic to Akkadian Transition: the Area WF Sounding at Nippur (Excavations at Nippur volume ... building levels excavated in Area WF at Nippur, identifies the transition ...

Article: Nippur: Enlil's city.
Calliope;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Throughout its early history, Nippur held an important, if not unique, position ... about 112 miles southwest of Baghdad. Nippur served as Mesopotamia's major religious ... shrine. Early in Mesopotamia history, Nippur was made a neutral city, This was probably ...

Article: Nippur in Late Assyrian Times.(Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... commentary. These tablets were discovered at Nippur by the Oriental Institute's expedition ... constituted the archive of the governors of Nippur. They lack dates but, to judge from ... government in Babylon did not control Nippur, which also remained independent from ...

Article: The Early Neo-Babylonian Governor's Archive from ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Oriental Institute Publications, vol. 114; Nippur, IV. Chicago: THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE ... commentary. These tablets were discovered at Nippur by the Oriental Institute's expedition ... constituted the archive of the governors of Nippur. They lack dates but, to judge from ...

Article: The Nippur Lament: Royal Rhetoric and Divine Legitimation ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... comprehensive critical edition of the Nippur Lament with commentary and score. It ... explicit aim of the study to "set the Nippur Lament in its ancient literary, historical ... view of Isme-Dagan's dealings with Nippur" (p. 39). Tinney shows that both ...

Article: "ENKI IN NIPPUR": EIN BISLANG UNIDENTIFIZIERTES, ...
Journal of Cuneiform Studies;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... 29' des ersten Textteiles. Hier wird Nippur "unsere Stadt" genannt. Der Text als solcher wurde daher hchstwahrscheinlich in Nippur komponiert, fraglich ist, ob die Tafeln selbst aus Nippur stammen oder in Ur geschrieben wurden ...

Article: Nippur
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      328 words ...Nippur , ancient city of Babylonia, a N Sumerian ... the god Enlil, or Bel. Excavations at Nippur have yielded the remains of several temples ... civilization. Assurbanipal erected a ziggurat in Nippur. Relics of the Persian and Parthian periods ...