Shatt en-Nil

The Shatt en-Nil (also Shatt al-Nil) is a dry river bed/canal in southern Iraq.James E. Smith, Ezekiel: A Christian Interpretation (Lulu.com, 2008)page 42. It is also known as the Naru Kabari.John L. Mckenzie, The Dictionary Of The Bible (Simon and Schuster, 1 Oct 1995) page 128.E. A. Wallis Budge, A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30 (Routledge Revivals): Vol. VII: Egypt Under the Saites, Persians and Ptolemies (Routledge, 2013) page 11. Ezekiel’s Seventy Years.

Called the Euphrates of Nippur, the river was an important irrigationHermann Vollrat Hilprecht, The Excavations in Assyria and Babylonia Cambridge University Press, 2011) page 413. and transport infrastructure for the city of Nippur during antiquity. The canal started just north of Babylon and travelled for 60 kmCarl G. Rasmussen, Zondervan Atlas of the Bible (Zondervan, 30 Sep 2014) page. ending at Larsa where it rejoined the Euphrates River. On the way, it flowed through Nippur (32.55°N 44.42°E 34m). The canal also serviced the city of Tel Abib and Uruk.H.V. Hilprecht, Exploration in Bible Lands (1903)

The canal is referred to in the so-called Murashu documents discovered at NippurA.T. Clay, Business Documents of Murash – Sons of Nippur (1898) which record business transactions in the area around Nippur. The river/canal has also been one of the rivers identified as the biblical River Chebar.(כְּבָר [נְהַר)Leonard W. King, A history of Sumer and Akkad (Рипол Классик, 1994) page 9.

See also Iturungal canal

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