Crossword-Solution: NIFFER 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Though the place has been deserted for at least nine hundred years, its ancient name still lingers on in local tradition, and to this day _Niffer_ or _Nuffar_ is the name the Arabs give the mounds which cover its extensive ruins.

Already we have an interesting and poetical record of the entry of Bel and Beltis into the great temple at Niffer, probably copied from some ancient source, and Gudea, a king of Lagaš (Telloh), who reigned about 2700 B.C., gives an account of the dream which he saw, in which he was instructed by the gods to build or rebuild the temple of Nin-Girsu in his capital city.

That at Niffer, for instance, seems to have had a causeway on each side, making four approaches in the form of a cross.

Finally, plants, trees, and the animals, were produced, after which Merodach constructed bricks, beams, houses, and cities, including Niffer and Erech with their renowned temples.

Sclater; “an’ though, weel I wat, the sicht o’ ’im never bodit me onything but ill, I never loot him ken he was less nor walcome; an’ gien bein’ a minister gies the freedom o’ puir fowk’s hooses, it oucht in the niffer (_exchange_) to gie them the freedom o’ his.” Therewith encouraging herself, she walked up the steps and rang the bell.