Borsippa

Borsippa
   An important Babylonian city located about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Babylon. Dating from at least as early as the late third millennium b.c., Borsippa (today called Birs Nimrud) was most famous as the home of the god Nabu, son of the chief Babylonian god, Marduk. Nabu's main temple, called the Ezida ("Enduring House") was in the city and a large ziggu-rat was erected nearby. Because the ruins of the ziggurat still rise to a height of 150 feet (45m) and lie so close to Babylon, many early modern travelers incorrectly assumed that Borsippa was Babylon and that this ancient pyramidal structure was what remained of the Tower of Babel. In reality, in the city's heyday worshippers carried the cult image, or sacred statue, of Nabu from its temple and bore it along a special processional road to Babylon, where it "communed" with a statue of Marduk. Various early Assyriologists, including Austen Henry Layard, Hormuzd Rassam, and Henry C. Rawlinson, conducted excavations at Borsippa in the nineteenth century. The latest archaeological dig at the site was an Austrian expedition in the 1980s.
   See also: Babylon; Nabu; Tower of Babel

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