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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An ancient city of northern Babylonia on the Euphrates River south-southwest of present-day Baghdad. In early times it was a religious center devoted to the worship of the sun god Shamash.

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  • proper noun An ancient Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates, some 60 km north of Babylon, in what is now Tell Abu Habbah, Iraq.

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Examples

  • Anunitum, the goddess of one of the two Sippars, called Sippar of

    The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Theophilus Goldridge Pinches 1895

  • It's hardly a trustworthy, first-hand account of Etruscan haruspicy when compared to the Babylonian artifact from Sippar whose picture I've shown in Part 1.

    Finding structure in the Piacenza Liver despite academic claptrap - Part 4 2008

  • An article in the Washington Post describes the cuneiform tablets at the museum, including the archive discovered in 1986 at Sippar, which may now be lost without having ever been studied.

    Taking Stock in Baghdad 2003

  • Babylonian cities were believed to have their proto types in the constellations: Sippar in Cancer, Nineveh in Ursa Major, Assur in Arcturus.

    THE CITY MOSHE BARASCH 1968

  • In fact, had not mental control existed throughout Sippar?

    Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964

  • Today he discovered that there was another reason beside those old horrors which moved him to hatred for the halls of Sippar.

    Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964

  • The water lapped sul - lenly against a waiting quay and Simon saw here a likeness to the hidden port beneath Sippar, evidently a familiar pattern for the enemy.

    Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964

  • Have you not heard of the out - lander who helped lead the storming of Sippar"Simon Tregarth? "

    Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964

  • The enemies 'defeat in Sippar would have taught them a lesson.

    Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964

  • Simon had had enough of Gorm and Sippar in the fighting which had driven Kolder from that snug nest.

    Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964

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