Sippar is the cult site of the…
1917 BCE to 1774 BCE
Sippar is the cult site of the sun god (Sumerian Utu, Akkadian Shamash) and the home of his temple E-babbara.
A king of Sippar, En-men-dur-ana, is listed in the Sumerian king list as one of the early pre-dynastic rulers of the region, but has not yet turned up in the epigraphic records.
Relatively little is known about the history of Sippar, given that thousands of cuneiform tablets have been recovered at the site.
It is part of a pair of cities, separated by a river, as is often the case in Mesopotamia.
Sippar is on the east side of the Euphrates, while its sister city, Sippar-Amnanum, is on the west.
Pottery finds indicate that the site of Sippar was in use as early as the Uruk period, but substantial occupation occurs only in the Early Dynastic period of the third millennium BCE, the Old Babylonian period of the second millennium BCE, and the Neo-Babylonian time of the first millennium BCE.
Lesser levels of use will continue into the time of the Achaemenid, Seleucid, and Parthian Empires.
Sippar comes under the control of the Babylonian ruling house in 1838 BCE.
Sumu-la-El of Babylon reports building Sippar’s city wall in his twenty-ninth regnal year.
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