Sippar-Amnanum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors:
Müge Durusu, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, Rune Rattenborg
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 08, 2024 01:31 PM
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History
tags:
ANE,
Babylonian
Sippar-Amnanum (modern Tell ed-Der; also referred to as Sippar-Annunītu) was a small city located 6 km northeast of Sippar and 63 km north of Babylon. The goddess Annunītu was the patron deity of this sister city of Sippar and Eulmaš was its principal temple. An archive of ca. 2,000 cuneiform tablets dating the the reigns of several kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon were excavated in the house of Ur-Utu, the chief lamentation-priest of the goddess Annunītu. From several inscriptions of Nabonidus (r. 555–539 BC), Babylon’s last native king, it is certain that Sippar-Amnanum (which he refers to as Sippar-Annunītu) was still occupied and its cult was still in use in the sixth century BC, although it had been (partially) destroyed by the seventh-century-BC Assyrian king Sennacherib (r. 704–681 BC).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/392373882
33.0992410752, 44.2992431536
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tell ed-Der (2000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Tall al-Daiyr (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Sippar-Annunītu (Akkadian, 2000 BC - 540 BC)
- تلول الدير (Tell ed-Dēr: Arabic, modern)
- None
- Amnanum located near Sippar-Amnanum (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
- Eulmaš located at Sippar-Amnanum (720 BC - 540 BC)
findspot, place of finding, settlement, archaeological site
Pleiades
This site is related to, but distinct from, Sippar.
Gabriel Mckee, Müge Durusu, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Sippar-Amnanum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/392373882> [accessed: 27 December 2024]
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