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5 days ago · At an early stage, following the dawn of recorded history, Nippur, in central Mesopotamia, replaced Eridu in the south as the primary temple city, whose priests exercised political hegemony on the other city-states. Nippur retained this status throughout the Sumerian period.
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May 2, 2024 · The theonym Nin-Girgilu referred to Inanna as the goddess of Girgilu, either a part of Nippur or a separate nearby settlement. Under this name, she was worshiped in Nippur in the Ur III and early Old Babylonian periods, though a Ningirgilu temple also existed in Ur .
5 days ago · The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennium BC.
- 𒉆𒈗 (Nam-Lugal "Kingship").
6 days ago · Sumerian cities such as Uruk, Ur, Lagash, Umma, and Nippur located in Lower Mesopotamia were very powerful and influential. To the north and west stretched states centered on cities such as Kish , Mari , Nagar , and Ebla .
- fl. c. 2900 – c. 2350 BC (middle)
- Bronze Age
May 1, 2024 · In a text referred to as the Nippur Compendium by modern researchers, Latarak is identified both as an Asakku and as a son of Anu. The Epic of Erra describes the Sebitti as his creations, subsequently given to the eponymous god as weapons.
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- horned crown on a pedestal
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3 days ago · She had temples in Nippur, Lagash, Shuruppak, Zabalam, and Ur, but her main cult center was the Eanna temple in Uruk, whose name means "House of Heaven" (Sumerian: e 2-anna; cuneiform: 𒂍𒀭 E 2.AN). Some researches assume that the original patron deity of this fourth-millennium BCE city was An.
