| Summary: | In the Old-Babylonian Sippar, the main meetings’ functions of the greek agora or the roman forum were fulfilled by a temple called “Ebabbar”. The Ebabbar was hosting religious meetings (through cultual festivals), juridical meetings (trials took place in the temple) and economical meeting (many trade partnerships were sealed in the Ebabbar, which also served as a book-keeping center). The Ebabbar was also connecting Sippar inhabitants in a sociological way, notably through networks of sociability, and in a cosmological way, by uniting humans with each other and linking them to the divine world.
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