Nippur Cubit
Nippur ( Sumerian: ''Nibru'', often logographically recorded as , EN.LÍLKI, "Enlil City;"The Cambridge Ancient History: Prolegomena & Prehistory': Vol. 1, Part 1. Accessed 15 Dec 2010. Akkadian: ''Nibbur'') was an ancient Sumerian city. It was the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god Enlil, the "Lord Wind", ruler of the cosmos, subject to An alone. Nippur was located in modern Nuffar in Afak, Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq (roughly 200 km south of Baghdad). Occupation at the site extended back to the Uruk period, the Ubaid period, and the Jemdet Nasr period. History Nippur never enjoyed political hegemony in its own right, but its control was crucial, as it was considered capable of conferring the overall "kingship" on monarchs from other city-states. It was distinctively a sacred city, important from the possession of the famous Ekur temple of Enlil. Ninurta also had his main cult center, the E-shumesha temple, in the city-state. According to the ''Tummal ...
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Afak District
, settlement_type =District , image_skyline = File:Diwaniya_regions.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = Afak district in light blue , pushpin_map = , pushpin_label_position =right , pushpin_map_caption = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = , subdivision_type1 =Governorate , subdivision_name1 = Al-Qādisiyyah , seat = Afak , leader_title = , leader_name = , established_title = , established_date = , area_total_km2 = , population_as_of =2015 , population_footnotes = , population_total =165,000 , population_density_km2 = , timezone = AST , utc_offset = +3 , coordinates = , elevation_footnotes = , elevation_m = , elevation_ft = , website = , footnotes = Afaq District ( ar, عفك) is a distric ...
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