Borsippa

The northern Babylonian city of Borsippa (Akkadian Barsip; Classical Borsippa; modern Birs Nimrūd) is the principal Mesopotamian cult center of the god Nabû and the goddess Tašmetu. The most important structures of this important city, which is located ca. 7 km southwest of Babylon, were the city wall Ṭābi-supūršu, the principal temple Ezida, and the temple-tower Eurmeiminanki; the ruins of the ziggurat were regarded as the remains of the biblical Tower of Babel. Click on the links in this paragraph or in the main menu to the left to access information about these three important architectural features of Borsippa.

Banner image: drawing and photo of the ruins of the god Nabû's ziggurat, Eurmeiminanki (left and right); satellite image of Borsippa with the ruins of Ezida and Eurmeiminanki (center). Drawing by Faucher-Gudin and photograph by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin.

Jamie Novotny

Jamie Novotny, 'Borsippa', Babylonian Temples and Monumental Architecture online (BTMAo), The BTMAo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, [http://oracc.org/btmao/Borsippa/]

BTMAo 2019-. BTMAo is based at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Historisches Seminar (LMU Munich, History Department) - Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East. BTMAo is part of the four-year project Living Among Ruins: The Experience of Urban Abandonment in Babylonia (September 2019 to October 2023), which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung as part of the program "Lost Cities. Wahrnehmung von und Leben mit verlassenen Städten in den Kulturen der Welt," coordinated by Martin Zimmermann and Andreas Beyer. Content released under a CC BY-SA 3.0 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/] license, 2007-.
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