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Surroundings:

Hadad from AleppoMarduk-nasir kudurru, Kudurru of IsinCyrus CylinderBabylonian - Boundary StoneesagilaKudurru of Marduk-nadin-ahhe king of IsinTakil-ana-ilīšu kudurru - British MuseumBabylonA processional way - Ishtar Gate, BabylonBabylon, Procession RoadBabylon, Lion

Location:

  • Iraq, Madīnat Bābil
  • geo:32.536228,44.42083
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -600~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Annotations

The Etemenanki, the Tower of Babel. Neo-Babylonian Ziggurat  - temple dedicated to Marduk erected in the sixth century BC.

 

See:

  1. Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi, Bemerkungen zum Aufbau der Ziqqurrat Etemenanki in Babylon,  Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Institut für Altertumswissenschaften 32, 2002, pp. 153-164

De "toren van Babel"


Nearby

Babylon, Hadad of Aleppo

Storm god Hadad of Aleppo in Ancient Orient Museum in Istanbul. Stela was unearthed in Babylon in palace of King Nebuchadnezzar II

Marduk-nasir kudurru, Kudurru of Isin

Walters Art Museum no. 2110 kudurru.

Cyrus Cylinder

Ostovane-ye Kūrosh, or Cyrus Charte


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