Nipur

The fifth campaign of Sennacherib, according to his own annals, was partly in a mountainous country which he calls Nipur or Nibur -- probably the most northern portion of the Zagros range where it abuts on Ararat.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

And Nipur is named after my other nephew Andrew (now 11) because his nickname used to be 'Nipper'!

Some Frequently Asked Questions addressed to Roman Mysteries author Caroline Lawrence 2010

Talmudical Nopher, and the Assyrian Nipur which is Nipru, with a mere metathesis of the two final letters.

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From this recension seems to have been derived the display inscription recently discovered on Mt. Nipur, which was inscribed at the end of campaign five.

Assyrian Historiography

Some one -- I forget who -- has traced their route through Larsa, where men worshipped the sun; through Erech, where they worshipped the planet Venus -- the bright evening star; through Nipur, where they bowed the knee to Baal; through Borsippa, where they worshipped the planet Jupiter; and on and on until they came to Haran, where the people worshipped -- the moon!

Men in the Making Ambrose Shepherd

Indeed it has been confidently asserted by certain writers that the earliest idols set up as emblems of the Deity, or as expressions of the peculiar worship of the Lingajas, were obelisks, columns, or towers, the first of which we have any account being the Tower of Babel, erected probably at Nipur in Chaldea.

The God-Idea of the Ancients 1897

Larsa (now Senkereh), the Ellasar of Gen. 14: 1, a little to the east of Erech; Nipur (now Niffer), south-east of Babylon;

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

(Senkereh), and, it appears, at Sir-burla (Tel-Loh), at Nipur (Niffer) and at Urukh (Erech, Warka), and as the two latter cities belonged to

Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria 1879

Perhaps this idea grew up out of the fact that at Nipur the two were associated together in a common worship.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

The capital of the whole region was at first Ur or Hur, but afterwards became Nipur, and finally Babel or Babylon.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857