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Babbar

The name of a deity in the old Babylonian inscriptions. It means literally the " brilliantly shining one," and seems to have been another name for the sun, Shamash (q.v.). See Morris Jastrow, Rel.

citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney

 

article created 2006-04-12 , last updated 2006-04-12





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