Oriental Institute
| Title | Oriental Institute |
| View | Nippur Expedition 1 |
| Series | III: Events |
| Description | View of the city of Nippur in Iraq, a site where archaeologists from the University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania discovered a large temple, one of two found in 1952 at the northwestern end of a forty-acre religious quarter. The temple is part of a complex of the early dynastic period (first half of the third millennium BCE) believed to have been dedicated to En-lil and other gods. |
| Subject Terms | En-lil (Deity) | Nippur (Extinct city)--Antiquities | Architecture, Sumerian | Temples, Sumerian | Architecture, Ancient--Iraq | Excavations (Archaeology)--Iraq |
| Photograph Date | Undated |
| Physical Format | Photographic prints; 11.7 x 16.2 cm |
| Location | Iraq |
| Collection | Archival Photographic Files |
| Repository | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Image Identifier | apf3-01656 |
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