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Excerpt from Sumerian Grammatical Texts, Vol. 12 When the whole land of Sumer and Akkad was united, and Babylon was a new capital for a new race, the religious signifi cance of Sumer survived, and dead Sumerian language was used exclusively for all sort of religious compositions and records. Previous to the usurpations of Marduk of Babylon, and his satellite Nabu, the Semite Akkadians could boast onlya great sanctuary of the sun god of Sippar. Sippar seems to have been the early center of Akkadian influence. The city gave its proper name to the Euphrates, which was known as the river of Sippar to the Sumerians. All the cities of kis, Upi, Babylon are located in the same region. South of Nippur began Sumer, or later on the kingdom of the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.