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Examples of ziggurat
ziggurat
Ziggurat is only an ancient type of architecture, not the name of the building.
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Before that, West Sacramento helped build the iconic ziggurat office building.
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An example of a simple ziggurat is the White Temple of Uruk, in ancient Sumer.
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Each ziggurat was part of a temple complex which included other buildings.
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He creates a tettering ziggurat out of colourful, wormy sausage shapes.
From the independent.co.uk
The shrine at this time stood on a raised platform, and apparently contained a ziggurat.
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The ruins include a 4,000 year-old partially reconstructed ziggurat from the Sumerian period.
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He appears to have operated out of a lock-up ziggurat in Guatemala.
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The ziggurat of Choqa Zanbil in Khuzestan was a magnificent structure of the Elamite Empire.
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- A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
- Ziggurats (/u02C8zu026Au0261u0259ru00E6t/ ZIG-u0259r-at; Akkadian ziqqurat, D-stem of zaqu0101ru "to build on a raised area") were massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.
- The Ziggurat is a ten-story, stepped pyramidal office building and adjacent 5 story concrete parking structure located in West Sacramento, California on the shore of the Sacramento River. ...
- (Ziggurats (album)) Ziggurats is the 2007 album from Australian three-piece band The Beautiful Girls. It was released in May, 2007 and features the single I Thought About You.
- (ziggurats) Massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes. (p. 33)
- A stepped tower in or near a temple precinct and itself a place of worship as well as a major landmark and symbol of a city's prestige.
- A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown. (p. 37)
- Tiered temple tower on a rectangular base.
- Temple tower, either stepped in tiers or spiral, symbolizing the mountain peak where the gods dwelt and where the skies met with the earth. Topped by a small shrine.
