ZIGGURAT

zĭgˈoorăt, form of temple common to the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians. The earliest examples date from the end of the 3d millenium b.c., the latest from the 6th cent. b.c. The ziggurat was a pyramidal structure, built in receding tiers upon a rectangular, oval, or square platform, with a shrine at the summit. The core of the ziggurat was of sun-baked bricks, and the facings were of fired bricks, often glazed in different colors, which are thought to have had cosmological significance. Access to the summit shrine was provided by a series of ramps on one side or by a continuous spiral ramp from base to summit. The number of tiers ranged from two to seven. Notable examples are the ruins at Ur and Khorsabad in Mesopotamia. Similar structures were built by the Mayan people of Central America.

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books on: Ziggurat  - 326 results

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The Arts of Assyria
Book by André Parrot, Stuart Gilbert, James Emmons; Golden Press, 1961
Subjects: Art, Assyro-Babylonian, Art--Iraq
...6 - BABYLON. SEAL IMPRESSION. FIGURE AND ZIGGURAT LATE 2nd MILL. . Such humility was...rendered still more imposing by the addition of a ziggurat. There were three ziggurats in the Assyrian capital and another just across...
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The Concise Encyclopedia of Archaeology
Book by Leonard Cottrell; Hawthorn Books, 1960
Subjects: Archaeology--Dictionaries
...Ur-Nammu Ziggurat Ziwiye...Sumerians erected huge towers called ziggurats, artificial mountains looming above the...one recalls the Sumerian and Babylonian ziggurats -- of which the biblical Tower of Babel...
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Everyday Life in Babylon and Assyria
Book by Georges Contenau; St. Martins Press, 1954
Subjects: Assyria--Social Life And Customs, Babylonia--Social Life And Customs
...273 . The Ziggurat or Temple Tower , 276...spaces where the temples were built, the Ziggurat * of the great temple, and the royal...owed ____________________ * The ziggurat or temple tower built in stages or stories...
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The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State
Book by D. T. Potts; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Elam--Antiquities, Elam--History
...7 7 Axonometric reconstruction of the ziggurat at Choga Zanbil 225 7 8 Plan of...of the approach to the stairway of the ziggurat of Choga Zanbil 224 7 7 Inscribed brick in the ziggurat of Choga Zanbil 226 7 8 The sit...
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Light from the Ancient Past: The Archeological Background of the Hebrew-Christian Religion
Book by Jack Finegan; Princeton University Press, 1946
...19. The Ziggurat at Ur 30 Photograph...exploratory soundings in the age-old ziggurat which loomed up at Ur, read the foundation...Babylonia, and here, too, is found the first ziggurat. The Assyrian-Babylonian word ziqquratu...
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Wright's Baghdad Opera House and Gammage Auditorium: in Search of Regional Modernity
Journal article by Joseph M. Siry; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 87, 2005
Subjects: Architects, Architecture, Auditoriums, Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium-Tempe AZ, Interior design, Wright, Frank Lloyd
...people in a surrounding and protecting ziggurat of earth and masonry." Modern road-making...machinery "is here used to raise the ancient ziggurat to a new use as a plastic and plausible...antipathetic motor cars."45 The circular ziggurat was to provide parking for 1,920 cars...
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Whatever Happened in the Valley of Shinar? a Response to Theodore Hiebert
Journal article by André Lacocque; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 128, 2009
Subjects: Exegesis & hermeneutics, Language, Reading, Sacred texts
...sprawling cosmopolitan city with a towering ziggurat. The text identifies it with Babylon...recognize the sham mountain that the ziggurat imitated. Note the stress of the text...always the rationale for constructing a ziggurat. Translated into Israel, however, the...
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More on the "Ur-Nammu" Stela
Journal article by Jeanny Vorys Canby; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
...the block with two entwined wrestlers (who cannot be one figure bathing (3)) was found in the Kassite Ningal temple on the ziggurat terrace, (4) that the intentionally ambiguous terms "good" and "poor" face describe the present condition of the fragments...
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The Tower of Babel and the Origin of the World's Cultures
Journal article by Theodore Hiebert; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 126, 2007
Subjects: Bible, Culture, Religious history
...ubiquitous in descriptions of the height of ziggurats and temple complexes.28 Babylons main...equaling Apsu" (VI:62; ANET, 69). The great ziggurat in Babylon was named Etemenanki, "House...identified by most scholars with the great ziggurat, or temple tower, of Babylon, Etemenanki...
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A Mesopotamian Proverb and Its Biblical Reverberations
Journal article by Frederick E. Greenspahn; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 114, 1994
Subjects: Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Iraq--Literature, Proverbs--History
...82. Moreover, many of the Mesopotamian ziggurats on which the Tower of Babel is patently...with raised head) atop the Babylonian ziggurat.(24) Given the fact that Mesopotamian...Clarendon Press, 19231, 172). The Babylonian ziggurat itself was called Etemenanki, which means...
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Modernist Mews
Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 210, July 2001
Subjects: Dwellings--Design and construction, London, England--Buildings, facilities, etc.
...ingenuity. An ingenious scheme, by Ziggurat, for extending a tiny mews house in South...demolished. Behind the existing remnant, Ziggurat excavated and lowered the floor level...diffusing luminance back into the house. Ziggurat has cleverly established a shifting diagonal...
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Epics in Miniature
Magazine article by Eric Gibson; New Criterion, Vol. 25, December 2006
Subjects: Ancient art--Exhibitions, Art, Ancient--Exhibitions, Cylinder seals--Exhibitions, Cylindrical seals--Exhibitions
...its the great monumental structures that come to mind--the ziggurat at Ur, the barrel-vaulted arch at Ctesiphon, or sprawling temple...marvel at how these societies created works as monumental as a ziggurat, so it is equally astonishing that they produced such detailed...
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Water at War
Magazine article by Azzam Alwash; Natural History, Vol. 116, November 2007
Subjects: Armored vehicles, Construction, Floods, Hydroelectric plants, Iran Iraq War, Rivers, Wetlands
...by Azzam Alwash When I Was growing Up in southern Iraq in the 1960s, my family used to take me on picnics to the Great Ziggurat temple and the royal burial grounds of Ur, about 140 miles northwest of the Persian Gulf. I remember the massive brick structures...
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Letter from Baghdad: Dan Cruickshank Went to Iraq Late Last Year to Make a Film about the Country's Extraordinary Heritage of Ancient Buildings Which Are Now Threatened with Further Destruction
Magazine article by Dan Cruickshank; The Architectural Review, Vol. 213, March 2003
Subjects: Antiquities--Evaluation, Antiquities--Personal narratives, Baghdad, Iraq--Personal narratives, Hussein, Saddam--Social policy, Motion picture industry--Personal narratives
...ancient buildings -- dominated by the huge bulk of a ziggurat. Ziggurats -- stepped pyramids, formed with a series of terraces...succeeding Mesopotamian civilization like the Assyrians. Ziggurats were the focal and spiritual centre of the city...
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TV and the Decline of Civilization
Magazine article by John Leonard; The Nation, Vol. 257, December 27, 1993
Subjects: Television programs--Social aspects, Television violence--Analysis, Violence in television--Analysis
...daubed with sesame oil, gorged on goat, hefting up his sword and drum, Senator Ernest Hollings looked down November 23 from a ziggurat to lament, all over the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, the destruction of a fabled Ur: "If the TV and cable industries...
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newspaper articles on: Ziggurat  - 43 results

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Tate Is Given [Pounds Sterling]50m Grant for Ziggurat; Art of Glass: An Artist's Image of How the Glass Pyramid Annex to the South-West of the Tate Modern Building Will Look
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 5, 2007
Subjects: Artists
Tate Is Given Pounds Sterling50m Grant for Ziggurat; Art of Glass: An Artists Image of How the Glass Pyramid Annex...totake the form of a giant and fragmented glass pyramid, or ziggurat. Mr Purnell said Tate Modern, which opened in 2000, had been...
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Tate Is Given [Pounds Sterling]50m Grant for Ziggurat; Art of Glass: An Artist's Image of How the Glass Pyramid Annex to the South-West of the Tate Modern Building Will lookTate Is Given
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 5, 2007
Subjects: Artists
Tate Is Given Pounds Sterling50m Grant for Ziggurat; Art of Glass: An Artists Image of How the Glass Pyramid Annex...to take the form of a giant and fragmented glasspyramid, or ziggurat. Mr Purnell said Tate Modern, which opened in 2000, had been...
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U.S. Infantry Protects Ancient Treasures of Ur
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 20, 2003
Subjects: Abraham (Biblical figure)
...themselves. The infantry surrounded the Ziggurat of Ur, a famous pyramid temple to the...home and the majestic precision of the Ziggurat are even more important now that looters...silver. Sumerian King Ur-Nammu built the Ziggurat in roughly 2100 B.C., according to most...
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BRITAIN TODAY: Plans Changed; TATE MODERN
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), July 19, 2008
...Changed; TATE MODERN. TATE Modern has revised plans for its pounds 215m extension - abandoning the original idea of a glass ziggurat. The series of glass-covered cubes proposed for the world-famous gallery have been replaced with a pyramid-like structure...
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Letter: Library Must Make a Statement
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 22, 2004
...lynch-pin of the Eastside development. One thing is certain - the citizens of Birmingham would like to see the ill-placed ziggurat monolith that is the current Central Library demolished. The land on which it sits is a prime location for a development which...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ziggurat  - 13 results

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Ziggurat
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZIGGURAT zig oorat, form of temple common to the Sumerians...millenium b.c., the latest from the 6th cent. b.c. The ziggurat was a pyramidal structure, built in receding tiers upon...platform, with a shrine at the summit. The core of the ziggurat was of sun-baked bricks, and the facings were of fired...
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Tower
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...function for modern corporations. The earliest use of tall structures for ritual and symbolism is seen in the Babylonian ziggurat . The temple architecture of India had a variety of pyramidal and cylindrical masonry towers. The many-storied pagoda in...
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Sumerian and Babylonian Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Some are portrayed kneeling. The ziggurat temple form was the most striking architectural achievement of the Sumerians. One ziggurat at Erech extended over an area of half...2100 b.c. During this period the great ziggurat of the moon god at Ur was built. Invasions...
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Nippur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Over 40,000 clay tablets found there serve as a primary source of information on Sumerian civilization. Assurbanipal erected a ziggurat in Nippur. Relics of the Persian and Parthian periods have also been unearthed at the site. ____________________ Copyright...
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Uruk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...millennium b.c. The temple of Anu, known as the white temple, stood on a terrace and seems to have been a primitive form of ziggurat. Uruk was the home of Gilgamesh and is mentioned in the Bible (Gen. 10.10). There have been excavations at the site since...
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