Hipparenum
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Hipparenum was an ancient city located in Mesopotamia. [1]It may probably identified with Sippar.[2]
Variants
Location
Jat clans
- Sipalwal → Sippar → Hipparenum (Pliny.vi.30)
History
Surviving ancient writings of Pliny had made bare mention of three astronomical schools in Mesopotamia – at Babylon, Uruk, and Hipparenum (possibly 'Sippar').[3]
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[4] mentions Mesopotamia ....Besides the above, there are still the following towns in Mesopotamia: Hipparenum24, rendered famous, like Babylon, by the learning of the Chaldæi, and situate near the river Narraga25, which falls into the Narroga, from which a city so called has taken its name. The Persæ destroyed the walls of Hipparenum. Orchenus also, a third place of learning of the Chaldæi, is situate in the same district, towards the south; after which come the Notitæ the Orothophanitæ, and the Grecichartæ.26
24 Nothing appears to be known of this place; but Hardouin thinks that it is the same with one called Maarsares by Ptolemy, and situate on the same river Narraga.
25 Parisot says that this river is the one set down in the maps as falling into the Tigris below its junction with the Euphrates, and near the mouths of the two rivers. He says that near the banks of it is marked the town of Nabrahan, the Narraga of Pliny.
26 There is great doubt as to the correct spelling of these names.
See also
References
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 30
- ↑ O Neugebauer (1975). A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy, volume 1, pp. 347–348, New York (Springer).
- ↑ O Neugebauer (1975). A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy, volume 1, pp. 347–348, New York (Springer).
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 30
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