Nippur ruins
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The Nippur ruins are the remains of an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city ruins
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archaeological site ⓘ |
| ancientName | Nippur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Ekur temple complex
NERFINISHED
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canal remains ⓘ city walls ⓘ residential quarters ⓘ temple archives ⓘ temple of Enlil NERFINISHED ⓘ ziggurat of Enlil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Iraq ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Enlil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Hermann Hilprecht
NERFINISHED
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Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage NERFINISHED ⓘ John Punnett Peters NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstMajorExcavationEnd | 1900 ⓘ |
| firstMajorExcavationStart | 1889 ⓘ |
| hasCulture |
Akkadian civilization
NERFINISHED
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Assyrian civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ Babylonian civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ Kassite civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ Sumerian civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDiscovery |
Nippur tablet collections
ⓘ
early Sumerian literary compositions ⓘ legal and economic documents ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Sumerian religion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
administrative texts
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large corpus of cuneiform tablets ⓘ lexical lists ⓘ literary texts ⓘ religious texts ⓘ school texts ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ Nippur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Euphrates alluvial plain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | modern town of Afak ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sumer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ancient Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| periodOfUse |
1st millennium BCE
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2nd millennium BCE ⓘ 3rd millennium BCE ⓘ Parthian period NERFINISHED ⓘ Sasanian period ⓘ late 4th millennium BCE ⓘ |
| significance |
major religious center of ancient Mesopotamia
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principal cult center of the god Enlil ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | on UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List of Iraq ⓘ |
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