Editing Sippar (section)

===Speculation===
[[Ziusudra|Xisuthros]], the "Chaldean Noah" in Sumerian mythology, is said by [[Berossus]] to have buried the records of the [[antediluvian]] world here—possibly because the name of Sippar was supposed to be connected with ''sipru'', "a writing".<ref>[https://archive.org/details/jstor-527500]Ward, William Hayes, "Sippara", Hebraica, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 79–86, 1886</ref> And according to [[Abydenus]], [[Nebuchadnezzar II]] excavated a great reservoir in the neighbourhood.<ref>Dalley, Stephanie, "Nineveh, Babylon and the Hanging Gardens: Cuneiform and Classical Sources Reconciled", Iraq, vol. 56, pp. 45–58, 1994</ref>

[[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] (''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'' 6.30.123) mentions a sect of Chaldeans called the ''Hippareni''. It is often assumed that this name refers to Sippar (especially because the other two schools mentioned seem to be named after cities as well: the ''Orcheni'' after [[Uruk]], and the ''Borsippeni'' after [[Borsippa]]), but this is not universally accepted.<ref>Barnett, R. D., "Xenophon and the Wall of Media", The Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 83, pp. 1–26, 1963</ref>

Sippar has been suggested as the location of the Biblical [[Sepharvaim]] in the [[Old Testament]], which alludes to the two parts of the city in its [[Dual (grammatical number)|dual]] form.<ref>G. R. Driver, "Geographical Problems", Eretz Israel, vol. 5, pp. 18-20, 1958</ref>