Tell Abu Habbah

E351431

Tell Abu Habbah is the archaeological mound that marks the site of ancient Sippar, a major Mesopotamian city in present-day Iraq.

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Label Occurrences
Tell Abu Habbah canonical 2
Tell Abu Habba 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf archaeological site
tell
ancientCityAtSite Sippar
archaeologicalFind economic texts
legal documents
literary texts
associatedWith ancient Mesopotamia
linked to: Mesopotamia
containsRemainsOf administrative buildings
temple complex
country Iraq
culture Akkadian
Babylonian
dedicatedToDeity Shamash
excavatedBy Hormuzd Rassam
excavationStartDate 1880
hasAlternativeName Abu Habba
Tell Abu Habba
linked to: Tell Abu Habbah
knownFor cuneiform tablets
temple of Shamash
locatedIn Baghdad Governorate
Iraq
locatedInPresentDay central Iraq
locatedNear Euphrates River
linked to: Euphrates
marksSiteOf Sippar
partOf ancient Babylonian heartland
period Neo-Babylonian period
Old Babylonian period
region Mesopotamia
significance major Mesopotamian urban center site
timeZone UTC+3

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sippar archaeologicalSiteName Tell Abu Habbah
Ebabbar excavatedAt Tell Abu Habbah
Tell Abu Habbah hasAlternativeName Tell Abu Habba
linked to: Tell Abu Habbah