That was the end of Babylonia as an independent country, but Harran. the moon-god’s city, clung tenaciously to Sin. Dr. Rice has found references in many ancient languages to the city’s ...

A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a conical hat and gripping a staff as he pays homage to the crescent moon of the god Sin, the ...

The fragment, which was originally part of a crescent-shaped votive object mounted on a pole or hung on a rope, mentions the religious center of Nippur, the moon god "Sin," and the names of at ...