Proper noun
Nippur
An ancient city in Sumer, modern Nuffar in Afak Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq.
Binkley, Roberta, The Importance of Enheduanna The Curse (How and why) Later material described how the fall of Akkad was due to Naram-Sin's attack upon the city of Nippur. Source: Internet
Perhaps this is why nearly every house excavated in the Jewish settlement in Nippur had one or more incantation bowl buried in it." Source: Internet
At all events the prominence of "Ea" led, as in the case of Nippur, to the survival of Eridu as a sacred city, long after it had ceased to have any significance as a political center. Source: Internet
Nabopolassar took advantage of this situation, seizing the ancient city of Nippur in 619 BC, a mainstay of pro-Assyrianism in Babylonia, and thus Babylonia as a whole. Source: Internet
Houses are mostly known from Old Babylonian remains at Nippur and Ur. Source: Internet
There is also evidence of libraries at Nippur about 1900 BC and those at Nineveh about 700 BC showing a library classification system. Source: Internet