Anatolian stone moulds dating to the early-middle Bronze and the Colony Period ages c.2250-1740 BC in Sippar and Nineveh (southern Iraq). WA 91902, 117717, and 92666.

Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habbah, Sumerian Zimbir "bird city") was an ancient Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates, some 60 km north of Babylon. It was divided into two parts, "Sippar of the Sun-god" and "Sippar of the goddess Anunit," the former of which was discovered by Hormuzd Rassam in 1881 at Abu-Habba, 16 miles southeast of Baghdad.

The main god of the city was the Sun god, Utu (Shamash in Akkadian). A large number of cuneiform tablets and other monuments have been found in the ruins of the temple of Shamash, which was called E-Babara by the Sumerians, Bit-Un by the Semites. This temple os thought to be the world's oldest bank, in operation until at least 1831 BC. Xisuthros, the "Chaldean Noah", is said by Berossus to have buried the records of the antediluvian world here - possibly because the name of Sippar was supposed to be connected with sipru, "a writing" and according to Abydenus (Fr. 9) Nebuchadrezzar excavated a great reservoir in the neighbourhood. Here too was the Babylonian camp in the reign of Nabonidos.

Pliny mentions a sect, or school of Chaldeans called the Hippareni. It is often assumed that this name refers to Sippar (especially because the other two schools mentioned seem to be named after cities as well: the Orcheni, and the Borsippeni), but this is not universally accepted.

Source: British Museum and Wikipedia.