At Abu Habba in 1881, Rassam discovered the temple of the sun at Sippar. There he found a Cylinder of Nabonidus and the stone tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina of Babylon with its ritual bas-relief and inscription. Besides these, he discovered some 50,000 clay tablets containing the temple accounts.Goodspeed, George Stephen (1902). Chapter 2, "The Excavations in Babylonia and Assyria", A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians, New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, Accessed April 4, 2011.
At Abu Habba in 1881, Rassam discovered the temple of the sun at Sippar. There he found a Cylinder of Nabonidus and the stone tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina of Babylon with its ritual bas-relief and inscription. Besides these, he discovered some 50,000 clay tablets containing the temple accounts.Goodspeed, George Stephen (1902). Chapter 2, "The Excavations in Babylonia and Assyria", A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians, New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, Accessed April 4, 2011.