Sippar (Abu Habba) is the northernmost city of Babylonia, situated on the east bank of the river Euphrates and approximately 60 km north of Babylon. While its earliest settlement dates back to the 4th millennium BCE, it developed to one of the major cities in Southern Mesopotamia. A huge archive of the city’s main temple, the temple of the sun god Šamaš, and several private family archives dating to the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods originate from that city.