Editing Sippar (section)

===Iron Age===
====Neo-Babylonian period====
In the succeeding [[Late Bronze Age collapse]] period, it was taken by the Neo-Babylonian ruler [[Nebuchadnezzar I]] about 1120 BC. In the reign of Neo-Babylonian ruler [[Adad-apla-iddina]] (c. 1064–1043 BC) the Shamash cult center along with all the other temples in Sippar were destroyed by Suteans and cult symbol of Shamash was lost.<ref>A. Goetze, "An Inscription of Simbar-šīḫu", Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 19 (4), pp. 121–135, 1965</ref><ref>Brinkman, J. A., "A Note on the Shamash Cult at Sippar in the Eleventh Century B.C.", Revue d’Assyriologie et d’archéologie Orientale, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 183–84, 1976</ref>

====Neo-Assyrian period====
In the early 1st millennium BC, Sippar came under Neo-Assyrian control.<ref>Da-Riva, Rocío, "Sippar in the Reign of Sîn-šum-līšir (626 BC)", Altorientalische Forschungen 28.1, pp. 40-64, 2001</ref> After the final defeat of the Neo-Assyrians by the Neo-Babylonians at the [[Battle of Carchemish]] in 605 BC text report that a number of Egyptian and Assyrian prisoners were brought to Sippar as chattel.<ref>Bongenaar, Arminius CVM, and Ben JJ Haring, "Egyptians in neo-Babylonian Sippar", Journal of cuneiform studies 46.1, pp. 59-72, 1994</ref><ref>Mac-Ginnis, John, "Assyrians after the Fall: Evidence from the Ebabbar of Sippar", At the Dawn of History: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of J. N. Postgate, edited by Yağmur Heffron, Adam Stone and Martin Worthington, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 781-796 2017</ref> Records of Neo-Babylonian ruler [[Nebuchadnezzar II]] (605-562 BC) and [[Nabonidos]] (556-539 BC) record that they repaired the Shamash temple E-babbara.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/jstor-527830/page/n20/mode/1up]Jastrow, Morris, "Nebopolassar and the Temple to the Sun-God at Sippar", The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, vol. 15, pp. 65-86, 1899</ref>

====Achaemenid period====
After the [[Battle of Opis]] in September 539 BC Sippar surrendered to the [[Achaemenid Empire]], followed soon after by the fall of the Neo-Babylonian empire.<ref>Kuhrt, A., "The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources of the Achaemenid Period", Routledge, 2007</ref>