Download or read book Nippur written by Charles River and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts of Nippur *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In southern Iraq, a crushing silence hangs over the dunes. For nearly 5,000 years, the sands of the Iraqi desert have held the remains of the oldest known civilization: the Sumerians. When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform tablets in Iraq in the late 19th century, they were confronted with a language and a people who were at the time only scarcely known to even the most knowledgeable scholars of ancient Mesopotamia. The exploits and achievements of other Mesopotamian peoples, such as the Assyrians and Babylonians, were already known to a large segment of the population through the Old Testament and the nascent field of Near Eastern studies had unraveled the enigma of the Akkadian language that was widely used throughout the region in ancient times, but the discovery of the Sumerian tablets brought to light the existence of the Sumerian culture, which was the oldest of all the Mesopotamian cultures. Although the Sumerians continue to get second or even third billing compared to the Babylonians and Assyrians, perhaps because they never built an empire as great as the Assyrians or established a city as enduring and great as Babylon, they were the people who provided the template of civilization that all later Mesopotamians built upon. The Sumerians are credited with being the first people to invent writing, libraries, cities, and schools in Mesopotamia (Ziskind 1972, 34), and many would argue that they were the first people to create and do those things anywhere in world. For a people so great it is unfortunate that their accomplishments and contributions, not only to Mesopotamian civilization but to civilization in general, largely go unnoticed by the majority of the public. Perhaps the Sumerians were victims of their own success; they gradually entered the historical record, established a fine civilization, and then slowly submerged into the cultural patchwork of their surroundings. They also never suffered a great and sudden collapse like other peoples of the ancient Near East, such as the Hittites, Assyrians and Neo-Babylonians did. A close examination of Sumerian culture and chronology reveals that the Sumerians set the cultural tone in Mesopotamia for several centuries in the realms of politics/governments, arts, literature, and religion. The Sumerians were truly a great people whose legacy continued long after they were gone. Located approximately 100 miles southeast of present-day Baghdad, on the east bank of the Euphrates River, are the remains of a large complex of ruins known as Nippur, a once great city with a history that stretches back to the 5th millennium BCE. Nippur owed its prestige through its status as a religious capital; it was the main place of worship of the great Sumerian god Enlil, considered to be the lord of the cosmos in the Mesopotamian pantheon. The city contained the main sanctuary and temple of Enlil, the Ekur (meaning -House-mountain- or -House of Life-). This religious complex was located in the heart of the city, and was believed to be where the gods met together at assemblies to decide upon the future of mankind. Throughout history, the kings of Mesopotamia and beyond traveled to Nippur to be consecrated at the Ekur-a ceremony that would symbolize their divine legitimacy as rulers. It was largely for these reasons that the struggles for possession of the city in the early days of the Paleo-Babylonian Empire (approximately 1830-1531 BCE) were so intense. The political situation in Nippur between the end of the Ur III kingdom and the end of the rivalry between Isin, Larsa, and Babylon was one of fierce competition over the site's ownership, and while it is likely that local authorities remained in place to preserve continuity and stability, the dominating rulers of Nippur changed frequently.
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nippur the Holy City written by Vaughn Emerson Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1959* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nippur Or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates Volume 2 written by John P. (John Punnett) Peters and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping account of archaeological expeditions to the ancient city of Nippur in Mesopotamia offers a fascinating glimpse into the early years of the field of Assyriology. Written by John P. Peters, a renowned scholar and archaeologist of the period, it remains a classic of the genre. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Sumerian City Nippur in the Period of the Third Dynasty of Ur written by Thomas Fish and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nippur Or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates written by John Peters and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the preface: "These two volumes bear the title, Nippur. Before the explorations of the University of Pennsylvania Expedition, that name was known only to a few scholars, and they knew little more than the name of the city and that at an early period it had played an important part in the religious development of Babylonia and, through Babylonia, of the world. We now know that in the times of the glory of Nineveh and Babylon the name of " Nippur " was as familiar to the citizens of those cities as the names of Nineveh and Babylon are to us, and that Nippur exercised on their religious life and religious development an influence as potent as that of Jerusalem on our own. The Temple of Bel at Nippur was to the religion of Babylonia and Assyria very much what the Temple of Jerusalem was to our religion. It was this city, which exercised so great an influence on the religious life of the people that so long dominated the civilized world, and so materially affected and determined the religious and scientific development of both Orient and Occident, and particularly the great Temple of Bel in that city, the oldest temple in the world, which the University of Pennsylvania Expedition explored. I have called this temple " the oldest temple in the world." We found that Nippur was a great and flourishing city, and its temple, the Temple of Bel, the religious centre of the dominant people of the world at a period as much prior to the time of Abraham as the time of Abraham is prior to our day. We discovered written records no less than 6000 years old, and proved that writing and civilization were then by no means in their infancy. Further than that, our explorations have shown that Nippur possessed a history extending backward of the earliest written documents found by us, at least 2000 years."
Download or read book Nippur Or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates the Narrative of the University of Pennsylvania Expedition to Babylonia in the Years 1888 1890 Volume 1 written by John P (John Punnett) 1852- Peters and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the adventures of the University of Pennsylvania's expedition to the ancient city of Nippur, located in modern-day Iraq. Through the expedition's discoveries and the author's accounts of his experiences, readers will gain insight into the archaeology and history of this fascinating region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Cataloging Service Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excavations at Nippur written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE NIPPUR LAMENT ANCIENT SUMERIAN LITERATURE AND POLITICS IN THE REIGN OF ISHME DAGAN OF ISIN 1953 1935 B C BABYLONIA written by STEPHEN JOHN TINNEY and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: broader perspective to illuminate the inter-textual sources of the Nippur Lament's significance.
Download or read book Excavations at Nippur written by McGuire Gibson and published by Oriental Institute Communicati. This book was released on 1975 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the Nippur Expedition publishes the first results of its new program of research at Nippur, the holy city of Mesopotamia. This program, bringing together an interdisciplinary team to work on a historical site in Mesopotamia, focuses on the entire city, not just the sacred aspects. Concentrating on the West Mound, the first season yielded a sequence of temples in Area WA and a Kassite administrative palace above an Old Babylonian house in Area WB.
Download or read book Nippur Or Explorations Adventures on the Euphrates Second campaign written by John Punnett Peters and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nippur and the Diyala River Basin written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the 1994-1995 annual report concerning the archaeological expedition of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in Illinois, which involves the city of Nippur and the Diyala River Basin. The city was the religious center of Mesopotamia and the site is located south of modern-day Baghdad, Iraq.
