Nippur - Sacred City Of Enlil

SUPREME GOD OF SUMER AND AKKAD

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure. 1 Map of ancient Mesopotamia.
Figure. 2 Plan of Nippur, with excavation areas indicated. Tablet Hill is the mound with Trenches TA, TB, and TC.
Figure. 3 Photograph of Ekur, the ziggurat of Enlil at Nippur.
Figure. 4 Photograph of WA, with niched-and buttressed outer walls of sequence of temples in background, sand dune above.
Figure. 5 Plan of remnant of Kassite governor's palace, 13th Century B.C.
Figure 6 Air photograph of Nippur, with ziggurat at right center, city wall visible as dark corner at lower left and Kassite canal ("Euphrates") farther left.
Figure 7 Ancient map of Nippur, Kassite period (courtesy Hilprecht Sammlung, Jena).
Figure 8 Overlay of ancient Nippur map on modern topographic plan of site Lack of exact fit is created by inaccuracies in angles on ancient map (Drawing by Augusta McMahon).
Figure. 9 Photograph of temple in Area WA, 1990. Kassite level.
Figure. 10 Figurine of dog from WA temple.
Figure. 11 Figurine of person in pain, from WA temple.
Figure. 12 Figurine of person in pain, from WA temple.