Editing Abul-Abbas (section)

===Place of death===
The location of "Lippeham" is a matter of conjecture,<ref name="becher061"/> but has been placed at the "mouth of the [[Lippe (river)|Lippe River]]"<ref name="becher061">{{cite book|last=Becher|first=Matthias|title=Karl der Grosse|publisher=C.H.Beck|year=1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g9jcIprivJUC&pg=PA61|page=61|isbn=978-3-406-43320-7}}, quote:"den Rhein bei Lippeham (an der Mundung der Lippe?)"</ref> (its confluence with the Rhine), in other words, somewhere near the city of [[Wesel]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Barth|first=Reinhard|title=Karl der Grosse|publisher=Buch Vertrieb Blank|year=2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0bMMAQAAMAAJ|page=12|isbn=978-3-937-50114-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Newfield|first=Timothy|title=A great Carolingian panzootic: The probable extent, diagnosis and impact of an early ninth-century cattle pestilence|journal=Argos |volume=46|year=2012|page=203|hdl=1893/11909}}</ref> The claim dates at least as far back as 1746,<ref name="nunning1746-p44">{{citation|last1=Nünning|first1=Jodocus Hermann|last2=Cohausen|first2=Johann Heinrich|title=Epistolae IV: De osse femoris Elephantini|work=Commercii literarii dissertationes epistolicae|place=Frankfurt am Main|year=1746|page=44|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dps5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA44}}, after Oettermann, ''Die Schaulust am Elefanten'' (1982) p. 98, note 117</ref> (or 1735)<ref name="leidenfrost"/> when J. H. Nünning (Nunningus) and a colleague had published a notice that "Lippeham" was to be identified with Wesel;<ref>{{Harvnb|Nünning|Cohausen|1746|p=44}}, "...&nbsp;os Elephantini femoris, ex inculto ad Rheni ripam agro haud procul Luppiae ostiis, olim Luppemunda, Luppeheim, Lippeham, Lippekant, & Lippia dictis. ubi vetus celebrisque Regum Francorum Carolingicae Stirpis olim fuit curia, hodie VESALIA dicta" ("elephant femur bone unearthed from the field on the banks of the Rhine, at a place not far from the mouth of the Lippe river, aka Luppemunda, Luppeheim, Lippeham, Lippekant, & Lippia, now called Wesel, where the celebrated scions of the Franks kings of the Carolingian dynasty held court." )</ref> and that a colossal bone unearthed from the area, in the possession of their affiliated museum, was plausibly a part of the remains of the elephant Abul-Abbas.<ref>{{Harvnb|Nünning|Cohausen|1746|p=48}}, Itaque os Musei nostri cum Elephantis fit,.. ad exuvias ABULABAZII Carolo M. ab Aarone Persarum Rege dono submissi"</ref> Another gigantic bone was found in the Lippe River among a catch of fish in the ''[[Herrschaft (territory)|herrschaft]]'' of {{Interlanguage link|Gartrop|2=de|3=Gartrop-Bühl|preserve=1}} in early 1750, and it too was claimed to be a piece of Abul-Abbas.<ref name="leidenfrost">{{cite journal|author=J.G. Leidenfrost|title=Nachricht von einigen Überbleibseln des Elephanten Abdulabbas|journal=Duisburger Intelligenz-Zettel|number=XXVII|url=http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/periodical/pageview/458522|date=7 July 1750}}, citing Nünning et al.</ref>

One detractor to the claim is [[Richard Hodges (archaeologist)|Richard Hodges]] who places it in [[Lüneburg Heath]], which is nowhere near the Rhine.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hodges|first=Richard|author-link=Richard Hodges (archaeologist)|title=Towns and Trade: In the Age of Charlemagne|publisher=Duckworth Publishers |year=2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2FKGAAAAIAAJ|page=37|isbn=978-0-715-62965-9}}</ref>