Talk:Sippar

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some infos :

Sippar was called Zimbir in Sumerian, which means "Bird City".

It is Northernest City of Sumer before the big flood.

It has been located as modern Tell Abu Habbah near Baghdad.

signed : saggiga source http://persocite.francite.com/saggiga/

Highlighting the Epic of Gilgamesh Sippar tablet?

I think this article should highlight one of the most famous cuneiform tablets discovered there, namely the "Sippar tablet" from the Epic of Gilgamesh. This tablet contains information missing from the later Akkadian version and represents a critical element of the older (Old Babylonian) version of the Epic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki-proofer-and-tagger (talk • contribs) 22:47, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Si.427

FYI, there is some talk at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Si.427 of moving information about that tablet into the archeology section here. Danstronger (talk) 16:49, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

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Now respectable though the history section, while the facts and sources are now there, could use a bit of work by someone with better writing skills. For the record I could find no proper source for "Zimbir". It was used by a couple century+ old papers without support and a few other people since followed that on faith. I'm not saying that Sippar isn't Zimbir, I'm saying I could find no proof of that.Ploversegg (talk) 03:04, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Would sites such as the ePSD2 and OSL be a ‘proper’ source – do you mean a paper? On these (I would assume) reliable sites the Sumerian name: Zimbir is used. In the ePSD2 it defines Zimbir as Sippar & Sippar as Zimbir. A while ago I used a translation of the Sumerian kings list (Oxford university), it used Zimbir to refer to Sippar… Despite that being a reliable source it isn’t opportune, would you say ePSD2 or OSL would work in this case?

One other thing, tangentially related. To what degree is the inclusion of Noto Sans Cuneiform useful, due to the veritably of Cuneiform (excluding old Persian and Ugaritic) over its existence would some form of image work better. I’ve seen this on a few Wikipedia articles (ancient Egypt uses images/files to display hieroglyphs and on some articles that relate to Neo- Assyrian & Babylon, images are used to represent the names of the people).

P.S. have a great day!

Legendarycool (talk) 23:59, 18 October 2025 (UTC)