Nibru

Nibru

Reruntuhan sebuah platform kuil di Nibru—struktur bata di atas dibangun oleh arkeolog Amerika pada sekitar tahun 1900.
Lokasi di Irak
Lokasi	Nuffar, Kegubernuran Al-Qādisiyyah, Irak
Wilayah	Mesopotamia
Koordinat	32°07′35.2″N 45°14′0.17″E / 32.126444°N 45.2333806°E / 32.126444; 45.2333806
Jenis	Pemukiman

Nibru (Bahasa Sumeria: Nibru, yang secara logografis tercatat sebagai 𒂗𒆤𒆠, EN.LÍL^KI, "Kota Enlil;"^[1] Bahasa Akkadia: Nibbur) merupakan salah satu kota Sumeria yang paling kuno. Lokasi ini adalah tempat ibadah khusus dewa Sumeria Enlil, "Tuan Angin," penguasa kosmos, tunduk pada An sendiri. Nippur terletak di Nuffar modern, Afak, Kegubernuran Al-Qādisiyyah, Irak.

•  Artikel ini menyertakan teks dari suatu terbitan yang sekarang berada pada ranah publik: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Nippur". Encyclopædia Britannica (edisi ke-11). Cambridge University Press. 
• Marcel Sigrist, Drehem, CDL Press, 1993, ISBN 0-9620013-6-8
• McGuire Gibson (Oriental Institute, U. of Chicago) 'Patterns of occupation at Nippur,' 1992
• Donald E. McCown, Excavations at Nippur, 1948–50, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 169–176, 1952
• V.E. Crawford, Nippur the Holy City, Archaeology, vol. 12, pp. 74–83, 1959
• D.P. Hanson and G.f. Dales, The Temple of Inanna Queen of Heaven at Nippur, Archaeology, vol. 15, pp. 75–84, 1962
• Edward Chiera, Cuneiform Series, Volume I: Sumerian Lexical Texts from the Temple School of Nippur, Oriental Institute Publication 11, 1929 Diarsipkan 2012-07-19 di Wayback Machine.
• E. C. Stone, Nippur Neighborhoods, Oriental Institute, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, vol. 44, 1987 Diarsipkan 2013-05-17 di Wayback Machine., ISBN 0-918986-50-8
• A. L. Oppenheim, Siege Documents from Nippur, Iraq, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 69–89, 1955
• T. Fish, The Summerian City Nippur in the Period of the Third Dynasty of Ur, Iraq, vol. 5, pp. 157–179, 1938
• John P. Peters, The Nippur Library, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 26, pp. 145–164, 1905
• McGuire Gibson, A Re-Evaluation of the Akkad Period in the Diyala Region on the Basis of Recent Excavations at Nippur and in the Hamrin, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 86, no. 4, pp. 531–538, 1982

Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Nibru.

• University of Pennsylvania Museum excavations at Nippur
• The Nippur Expedition: the holy city of Nippur; history of excavations. Diarsipkan 2007-04-03 di Wayback Machine.
• Nippur Archaeological Site Photographs at Oriental Institute Diarsipkan 2013-11-09 di Wayback Machine.
• Drehem cuneiform tablets at Milliken University Diarsipkan 2010-05-31 di Wayback Machine.
• GeoLocation from Google
• 85/452 Tablet, cuneiform receipt for livestock, terracotta, Drehem, 2041 BCE Diarsipkan 2016-03-04 di Wayback Machine.