| 单词 | ziggurat |
| 例句 | Gilgamesh stood on the first tier of the ziggurat, surrounded by a crackling cage of electricity. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The ziggurat’s immense height reflected the belief that the gods dwelled on high. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Another pack of four half-human beasts bounded along the outside of the ziggurat, barely five feet away from us, but they never even glanced in our direction. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Gilgamesh took us to the ziggurat entrance and then turned to me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The middle of the ziggurat was more untamed jungle than greenhouse. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The ziggurat's iron frame became supercharged as the bolts hit it again and again. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The storm continued to rage inside and outside the ziggurat. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Man-made landmarks like Mesopotamian ziggurats or flat-sided Egyptian pyramids dominated their landscapes, creating a visual effect as stunning as the amount of effort required to build them. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z And there was the mystery of the seven-tiered ziggurat that had appeared overnight in the middle of Central Park. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z His little canvases are filled with abrupt little stripes, X's, little stacks and ziggurats of emphatic brushstrokes, in black and white and zinging colour in different media. Mothers at Hauser & Wirth - review 2011-01-23T18:28:10Z And more, because connotations accumulate as surely as those “ziggurats” of refuse climb skyward. The best of the best American poetry 2013-04-10T18:12:10Z The site documents US artist Paul Thek's legendary 1960s monument The Tomb, a ziggurat containing a dead hippy mannequin bearing the features of the artist. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z When the building—the Whitney’s third home—first opened, in 1966, Marcel Breuer’s gloriously intransigent upside-down ziggurat, made of granite-clad concrete, proved controversial. Inside the Breuer Building, After the Whitney and Before the Met 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z He copied them with ink and brush, and he rephotographed them, sometimes altering them first by projecting the negatives onto little ziggurats of plaster. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Now, looming ahead of us is Likir monastery, the archetypal Ladakhi gompa, a jumbled ziggurat of whitewashed buildings scattered higgledy-piggledy over an outcropping, their carved casement windows peering out over an amphitheater of high mountains. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one At the northern edge of the old city, a ziggurat - or terraced pyramid - towered over the palace and nearby temples. Nimrud's broken glory lies in dust after Islamic State rampage 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe, Silbury Hill rises to a height of 37 metres, making it comparable with the Egyptian pyramids and the ziggurats of Mesopotamia. David Attenborough's big dig 2010-10-25T21:01:00Z Visitors are encouraged to slip through the studs and wander within, where Harrison has placed a pallet of cinderblocks and a dozen clunky, blocky little cement-slathered ziggurats, painted in brash colors. At Regen Projects, Rachel Harrison showcases the art of self-importance 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z One image showed a pencil sketch of the Norwood & Dulwich Laundry and Carpet Beating Works as it was in 1900, a ziggurat of brick buildings, horse carts in cobbled courtyards and chimneys issuing steam. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Still others recall labyrinths or ziggurats, their angled embankments suggesting rituals that defy comprehension. How does Las Vegas prevent catastrophic floods? The answer is in this exhibition 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z It featured a wax cast of his body in a suit, painted pink, with a blackened tongue and a cutoff right hand, housed in a ziggurat. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z They attribute their interest partly to the arched and ziggurat forms of Art Deco architecture in Miami. Antiques: The Case for a 17th-Century Female British Architect 2012-03-08T23:47:52Z Although he remained best known for his colored leaning planks, he also made sculptures in the shape of pyramids, ziggurats, tetrahedrons and occasionally crystals. John McCracken, Sculptor of Geometric Forms, Dies at 76 2011-04-10T23:58:44Z The Southern Wild captures some of the wondrousness of Flaming Lips but has none of their uniqueness of vision and ziggurat ambition. New band of the day: Eliza and the Bear (No 1,447) 2013-02-07T17:15:19Z But the Brutalist-style ziggurat is now deemed too small for future Chuck Closes, so the museum needed to raise millions for its big move. Scene City: The Whitney Gears Up for Downtown 2010-10-27T21:07:00Z Sun worship flourished in prehistoric Britain, so perhaps this was – like those ancient ziggurats – a stairway to heaven to let priests get closer to the sun. David Attenborough's big dig 2010-10-25T21:01:00Z The building’s upper floors feature symmetrical setbacks, with an eccentric ziggurat top. Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Yet this flesh-coloured ziggurat is a masterpiece of refinement compared with what came after it. Utopia-on-Thames? 2012-11-11T00:05:54Z In two “bandaged quilt” paintings, white strips are laid out in concentric rectangles — like bird’s-eye views of ziggurats — that culminate in narrow exposures of an underlying red. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z They include ziggurats made of stacks of cardboard boxes and three recent pieces using secondhand furniture. Martin Creed’s Anti-Spectacle at the Park Avenue Armory 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Now, looming ahead of us is Likir monastery, the archetypal Ladakhi gompa, a jumbled ziggurat of whitewashed buildings scattered higgledy-piggledy over an outcropping, their carved casement windows peering out over an amphitheater of high mountains. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one The smallest of the three sculptures that comprise this quietly overwhelming show is an untitled ziggurat of blackened cinder blocks, rusted steel and plastic-wrapped fiberglass from 1991. What to See in Los Angeles Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The city was already ancient when Shalmaneser III built a 200-room palace surrounded by a five-mile wall in the eighth century BC, adding to the temples, palaces and giant ziggurat built by his father. British Museum buys Assyrian treasures cleaned by Agatha Christie 2011-03-07T16:43:37Z The set, by the sculptor Antony Gormley, consists of movable cuboid frames which the performers continually reconfigure, the resultant ziggurats sometimes uniting the group, sometimes fracturing it. Political Mother 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z The paintings are slighter: colourful stairs and ziggurats. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z He combined Art Deco ziggurats and Modernist streamlining with Chinese-style pagoda roofs, brackets, balconies and latticework. The Architect Poy Gum Lee Finally Has a Retrospective 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z From a reimagined Babylonian ziggurat to a contemporary modernist pavilion, artworks in an upcoming exhibition at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum reveal the many ways artists incorporate architectural traditions into contemporary sculpture. These Sculptures Take Their Inspiration from Architecture 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The brooding, stone-clad upside-down ziggurat, with its moat, bridge and Cyclopean window, offended popular taste. Review: A New Whitney Lets New York City Pour In 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Contemplate the lines of its upside-down ziggurat while you can; construction on the £189 million replacement, the glittering Library of Birmingham, is expected to wrap up in 2013. 36 Hours: Birmingham, England 2012-01-26T18:29:09Z Generally, Creed likes to make little of nothing very much: a tiny tower of Lego, seven nails of ascending sizes banged into the wall, a slender ziggurat of planks. Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z I used to keep seed trays on an elegant ziggurat of chairs and books under my sunny study window, until I realized that watching peas sprout was doing nothing for my word count. Seeds, the Gateway Drug to Gardening 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z They started an archaeological exploration of its ruins, exhibiting their finds: a pseudo-Cretan wall painting and scraps of pottery with three poodles in compromising positions, and wood panels marked with the ziggurat motif. Haute Culture: General Idea - review 2011-03-01T14:00:59Z Suggesting cave paintings, irregular ziggurats and primitive maps, these variations also strongly evoke the art of Paul Klee, meaning they would seem natural to paintings not much larger than your face. Art In Review: CHUCK WEBSTER: ‘Paintings’ 2012-05-24T20:26:40Z The media descended on the $150m Arizona facility, all gleaming white panels and ziggurats of glass, filled with forests, deserts, laboratories, recycling systems, pigs, chickens, hummingbirds, bush babies, and even a coral reef. Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z The sculptures in Mike Shaffer’s American University Museum show, “Towers and Monuments,” include a ziggurat dedicated “to the train they call The City of New Orleans,” made primarily of blackened, cross-stacked railroad ties. In the galleries: Remapping the boundaries of drawing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z An exquisite melancholy has settled upon the galleries of Marcel Breuer’s inverted ziggurat on Madison Avenue: an air of dashed aspirations, commitment and farewell. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Arquitectonica’s beachfront apartment house, the Babylon, for instance, with its multiple interwoven ziggurat wings, was condemned before it reached age 40. Hand-Me-Downs and Discards from Design History’s Treasure Chest 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z At long last, my decades of tumultuous acquisition would be over and the ziggurats of boxes in my basement would finally be so much ancient history, like Ur and Babylon. Perspective | By day, I’ve been trying to cull my book collection. But at night, eBay beckons. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z This Bible story lent an air of defiant romance to a Southern California ziggurat that supplied grist for my childhood daydreams. Liner notes for the Citadel 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z That geography is part of why the actual Biosphere 2 building looks so striking: Two ziggurats made of tessellated glass triangles are connected by a long, glass rectangular structure. I Survived a Weekend at Biosphere 2 Pretending to Be in Space 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z In the center of each city was a huge temple called a ziggurat, or step-pyramid, a few of which still survive today. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The highest building in Babylon was a great, seven-tiered ziggurat more than 300 feet high. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s also influence from Egypt, from Mesopotamia’s ziggurat architecture, from Aztec architecture and from World War II bunkers, which is the first thing Denis showed me,” Vermette says. 'Dune' design is a vision come true, even if a desolate one 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z A few protruding glass shards were our local ziggurat’s only protection. Liner notes for the Citadel 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Still, Sevigny’s choices remain throughout, living on as perpetual inspiration: backlit wooden mashrabiya mirrors; ziggurat windows; the carved paneling from York Castle on the walls of the library; and wooden parapets on the terraces. A Tangier Home That Has Passed Between Design Legends 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Unlike Mesopotamian ziggurats, which were always temples, the pyramids were always tombs. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z As in Ur, the center of all Sumerian cities was the walled temple with a ziggurat in the middle. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In Ur, his speech, within view of a 4,000-year-old mud brick ziggurat with a temple dedicated to a moon god, added biblical and emotional resonance to the day. Pope Francis Meets Iraq’s Top Ayatollah as Both Urge Peace 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z There, we set out to erect the planet’s first skyscraper: a ziggurat that would bridge heaven and earth. Liner notes for the Citadel 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z With a dramatic ziggurat form made from granite-clad reinforced concrete and brick, and tall, slim prism-shaped windows, the building seems to cascade to the ground. A Cape Town Apartment That Speaks to the Past 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Unlike the Egyptian pyramids that came later, Mesopotamian ziggurats were not tombs, but temples, and as such they were the centerpieces of the great cities. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to being a place of worship, the ziggurat was like a city hall. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bricks on the great stepped pyramid, the ziggurat. Bill Nye talks about his new book, the 2020 election and how the next generation of kids can save the world 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z I also understood that he had something in common with the builders of the world’s first ziggurat. Liner notes for the Citadel 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z The hotel where Drollinger would be staying, a Crowne Plaza shaped like a perforated ziggurat, squatted up on the hill just beyond it. How the Trump Cabinet’s Bible Teacher Became a Shadow Diplomat 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z They invented functional wagons and chariots and, as seen in the case of both ziggurats and irrigation systems, they were excellent engineers. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z From the ziggurat the priests managed the irrigation system. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The master suite fireplace evokes a ziggurat and features an ornamental stairway to heaven. Hot Property Newsletter: Tobey Maguire and Cheryl Tiegs get back into the realty market 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Around midnight, Henry was able to climb a ziggurat to heaven, and I imagine him watching over us, hoping that we will use the lessons that he taught when our apocalypse arrives. Liner notes for the Citadel 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Gone are the garden city movement’s familiar arts-and-craftsy cottages arranged along radial avenues; instead, we find gigantic concrete ziggurat shopping centres, Y-shaped apartment blocks and curious amoebic pavilions. Auf wiedersehen, Walter! Why Britain booted out the Bauhaus 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In the master suite, the fireplace was designed to evoke a ziggurat and features an ornamental stairway that ascends toward the heavens. Home of the Week: Frank Gehry’s glass box in the sky 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z To keep the gods happy, the Sumerians built impressive ziggurats for them and offered rich sacrifices of animals, food, and wine. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A short walk from the magnificent brutalist ziggurats of the University of East Anglia is one of the best galleries in the UK. 10 reasons Norwich is one of the world’s most irresistible international holiday destinations 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z At the extremities, the ziggurats descend from their maximum height of 12 storeys to four, reflecting the surrounding scale of suburban villas. 'It didn't matter if someone liked it or not': six leading architects revisit their first commission 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z And his Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is a ziggurat of aqua-tinged light and jagged angles intended to capture the Miami sun and symbolize the unpredictable flourish of creativity. César Pelli, celebrated architect of sweep and harmony, dies at 92 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Pope’s terraced pyramid was styled after the ziggurat temple towers of ancient Mesopotamia, the “cradle of democracy.” The Lincoln Memorial as a pyramid? That wasn’t the craziest idea pitched a century ago. 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Arches, columns, ramps, and the pyramid shaped the design of the ziggurat and permanently influenced Mesopotamian civilization. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned out that there was a model of a ziggurat in the room, and it was just the right size to appeal to the class pet. My Childhood in a Cult 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Tell me just a little bit more about that, the ziggurat trilogy for you. Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The centerpiece of the monuments was to be a 297-foot high white marble arch atop a ziggurat of marble steps as long as a football field, according to NeoMam Studios. America's amazing mega-monuments that were never built 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s technique is to spin fiction as fact, secure in the knowledge that minds will reel as fact-checkers labor to deconstruct his ziggurat of falsehoods. Opinion | Don’t be fooled by Trump’s make-believe crisis 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z On the exterior of the ziggurat, a flight of perhaps 100 mud-brick stairs leads to the top. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z While I was being introduced to my sixth-grade teacher, Mrs. Winter, a girl raced past, crying out, “The hamster is in the ziggurat, the hamster is in the ziggurat!” My Childhood in a Cult 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The museum is a striking sight, changing its character as you move around it, shimmering like a golden crown in some lights, glowering as a menacing brown ziggurat in others. 'Already iconic': David Adjaye's black history museum wins design of the year 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z I envisioned him emerging from the pool as a figure on top of a ziggurat temple. Strong color pallette brings a long-held vision of 'Shape of Water' to life 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z But the real purpose of this gleaming ziggurat on the waterfront remains a matter of intense debate. The world-famous Louvre museum starts a lucrative new chapter in Abu Dhabi 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Cinema theatres such as Regal, Liberty and Eros are some of the best known iterations of this style, with their geometric designs and spiky ziggurats. The battle to save Mumbai's art deco buildings - BBC News 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Much of the site was reduced to rubble, with shattered statues and a ziggurat reduced to a fraction of its size. IS conflict: Iraqi force 'retakes ancient city of Hatra' - BBC News 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z In Doha, Qatar, the Museum of Islamic Art, a stylized ziggurat designed by I. M. The Gulf Art War 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z And the militants bulldozed Nimrud’s ziggurat, the mud-brick base of a once-soaring ancient temple, reducing it to a nondescript pile of dirt. Islamic State is driven from ancient Nimrud, where destruction is ‘worse than we thought’ 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Much of the area lies in rubble, with shattered statues and a ziggurat reduced to a fraction of its size. Nimrud: Photos show IS destruction of ancient Iraqi city - BBC News 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The precinct included a large temple and an enormous mudbrick ziggurat, or stepped tower, that measured nearly 200 feet by 200 feet at its base and likely measured 200 feet in height. Iconic Ancient Sites Ravaged in ISIS’s Last Stand in Iraq 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He spoke against the majestic bronze backdrop of the museum, a kind of inverted ziggurat not far from the Washington Monument. Obama Says African-American Museum Will Tell of ‘Suffering and Delight’ 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z The debt for this ziggurat has piled high and requires siphoning off money intended for schools and hospitals. In the Brazilian Rain Forest, ‘a White Elephant, a Big One’ 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z He said that the leveling of the ziggurat came as a shock because satellite images seemed to show that the structure was still untouched. Islamic State is driven from ancient Nimrud, where destruction is ‘worse than we thought’ 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z But the arresting brick ziggurat is also a physical symbol of the effect the Tate has had on its surroundings. First look: inside Tate Modern's power pyramid 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The ziggurat of Nimrud, a towering sacred structure built nearly 2,900 years ago, was leveled between the end of August and the beginning of October, most likely by the Islamic State. Iconic Ancient Sites Ravaged in ISIS’s Last Stand in Iraq 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Before us was the Statue of Liberty, same as she ever was, and something new: a tall, tan hill, terraced like a ziggurat, with a rockfall zagging down the north side. Rise of the Superpark 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Hispanic drivers unloaded crates from trucks, while Chinese ladies built ziggurats of exotic fruit. You wanna get to the top in New York City? You’d better have strong legs. 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Taxpayers spent nearly $1 billion subsidizing the ziggurat known as the new Yankee Stadium. Grumbling About Socialism, the Yankees Profit From It 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Their sheltering slopes now ascend in concrete-clad layers, like ziggurats rising out of the coastal plains. The Fall and Rise of Onagawa 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The ziggurat of Ur loomed over the ancient city 4,000 years ago. Probing the Dawn of Globalized Trade Nothing but pyramids and ziggurats for the Middle East, and a mega-yurt for the huge and busy Mongolian stock market. China Moves to Halt ‘Weird’ Architecture 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z But it succeeded only after its politicians agreed to help build a mighty $1 billion ziggurat for the team. Hello, They Must Be Going 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z They also say they plan to build a ziggurat or temple. Zuism – the growing religion of Iceland that offers rebates in this life 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z “The entire apartment is about the ziggurat,” she said, pointing to various examples of that step motif on molding, a pantry door and green marble-topped cabinets. Tovah Feldshuh at Home on the Upper West Side 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z A massive stepped pyramid, or ziggurat, rose above the city and still dominates the landscape today. Probing the Dawn of Globalized Trade After almost a decade of delays, the nearly completed Intercontinental Hotel and Casino, a ziggurat of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete, hovers over the harbor. Luxury Living in a Failed State 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Luckily, Babylon and other sites like the ziggurat of Ur are south of Baghdad, where the national government is more firmly in control. Race in Iraq and Syria to Record and Shield Art Falling to ISIS 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z One of an unmatched pair by the marquee architect, the ziggurat trimmed with trippy Day-Glo gardens had a very lengthy gestation, delayed by Spain’s financial crisis. Ibiza: Mediterranean Nights 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Could these billionaires and millionaires really not afford to build their own hoops ziggurat? Milwaukee Bucks Seek Financing for Arena as Schools and Other City Centers Face Money Problems 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The tracks soar over the densely packed intersections at Tysons and McLean, affording some dramatic vistas of office towers rising from the distant forests like Mayan ziggurats from the jungle. On the Silver Line, the scent of a freshly forged commute The newest residences at Mercedes House, a ziggurat of luxury rentals on Manhattan’s Far West Side, provide tenants with creature comforts found nowhere else in the city. The Appraisal: Next Residents of a Luxury Building: Police Horses 2014-04-14T18:30:56Z At the moment, Dr Werfel’s robots are capable of building little more than ziggurats and pyramids—the sorts of things the earliest human architects managed. Automated construction: ’Bot the builder 2014-02-12T18:49:20Z Raised above the plain of the worksheet like a ziggurat. The mysterious powers of Microsoft Excel 2013-04-20T23:27:56Z The latter took the form of a series of mirrored steps, creating a kaleidoscopic ziggurat of typewriters that wrapped around a street corner, multiplying into infinity. Gae Aulenti obituary 2012-11-05T16:22:31Z Many appear, too, at his exuberant parties at Baku Palace, a vast wedding and bar mitzvah ziggurat of a restaurant on Sheepshead Bay. Gregory Davidzon, a Kingmaker of Brooklyn?s Little Russia 2012-03-10T16:00:49Z On the right side of the square, on the usual platform, but without any ziggurat or tower near it, was the low, broad building miscalled "temple," dedicated to the worship of the goddess of night. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The great court, with its two isolated columns in front of the entrance, led into a second, from the floor of which rose the ziggurat or tower. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It is about 100 ft. in height, and strikingly resembles in general appearance the ruins of the ziggurat of the temple of Enlil at Nippur. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Mr. Garthe described the exterior, with its ziggurats, rosettes and diamond patterns, as primarily Art Deco, with some Beaux-Arts and Mayan touches. Square Feet: A New Life for a Former Movie Palace in Brooklyn 2010-09-28T20:40:00Z Walking around Sol LeWitt’s mysterious concrete ziggurat — titled “Irregular Progression High No. 7,” and on loan from the Pace Gallery — she paused to appreciate the carpet of evergreen needles that surrounded it. | Long Island: LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton Is Book?s Focus 2010-08-07T00:43:00Z On the temple platform, back of the great ziggurat, was the third building—the dwelling-house of the living goddess; a palace of a hundred rooms, pricelessly furnished and decorated. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The word ziggurat means a “lofty peak,” and the royal builders of Babylonia vied with one another in making the temple towers they erected as high as possible. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z When the Spanish arrived in the Americas, they brought the language of the Reconquista with them, sometimes referring to Aztecs and Mayans as "Moors" and to their ziggurats as "mosques." Muslim History Belies Stereotypes in 'Ground Zero Mosque' Dispute 2010-08-06T23:50:00Z This system of decoration is also found in the ziggurats or observatories behind the harem, where the three lower storeys still exist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Excavations conducted here by Sir Henry Rawlinson in 1854 showed it to be the stage tower or ziggurat, called the “house of the seven divisions of heaven and earth,” of E-Zida, the temple of Nebo. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Seemingly unabashed, the Jew addressed her: "Istar of Babylon, grant me an hour wherein I may hold speech with you—here, or without—upon the ziggurat." Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z A characteristic of the Babylonian temple, in fact, was the ziggurat or “tower” attached to each, whose head it was designed should “reach to heaven.” The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The city was divided into two parts by a canal, on an island in which stood the temple, E-mach, with a ziggurat, or stage tower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The latter, however, is known to have been a tomb, whereas the structure at Nippur was a temple, which took the form of a ziggurat or stage tower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The approach to this ziggurat was toward the north-east, and on this side lay also the principal rooms of the temple of which this was the tower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" There was no one on the height to-day, though ordinarily at this hour several ascended the ziggurat to watch the ascent of the goddess. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z In the tower or ziggurat, accordingly, we must see a reflection of the belief that this nether earth is a mountain whose highest peak supports the vault of the sky. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z In the nearby museum were plans showing how the city was believed to have been laid out, dominated by the ziggurat. Coming of Age: 1939-1946 Just beyond the dome rises the corkscrew tower, built in imitation of the Babylonian ziggurats. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad That the mound of Babil is the ziggurat or tower of a Babylonian temple scarcely admits of a doubt. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Together, however, they left the temple and passed across the deserted platform, which was still flooded with sunlight, till they reached the foot of the ziggurat. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z But it was in the ziggurat only that the deity thus came down from heaven in spiritual guise. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Each had its ziggurat or "tower," which served for the observation of the stars, and in the topmost storey of which was the altar of the god. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations The famous ziggurat of E-Sagila here mentioned was built in Seven Stages or Steps, each probably having its own distinctive colour. The Babylonian Legends of the Creation By no coincidence, engineering design emerged in the context of the pragmatics that began with building pyramids, ziggurats, and temples, and culminated in the Industrial Revolution in the design of machines. The Civilization of Illiteracy On the morning of the fourth day the hierodules attached to the temple of Istar, ascending her ziggurat to the sanctuary on the seventh stage, found the goddess herself, asleep upon her golden couch. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z "And it is said that one standing on the ziggurat, by the door of the sanctuary, may hear the sound of human weeping in that room." Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Stealthily now she drew aside the curtain and looked out upon the narrow platform of the ziggurat. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z As Istar left her dwelling and walked slowly towards the foot of the ziggurat, she saw that the whole city lay in a flood of gold. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Neither had she strength to descend the ziggurat again. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Nearer to the dwelling-place than to the temple, on the same platform with them both, was the ziggurat—that most characteristic feature of Babylonian architecture. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Bit-Yakin and the high-priest arrived at the foot of the ziggurat side by side, with the foremost of the company ten feet behind. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Everything that had passed since she was driven by the blows of the ox-goad out into the day-glare on top of the ziggurat, had been but a dim vision to her. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z A sharp scream, that could be heard by the multitude below, rang out from the shrine on the ziggurat. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z But the things that took place on the ziggurat were invisible to them. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z |
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