Babylon : the great city

1. Verfasser: Pedersén, Olof, 1946- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Münster : Zaphon Verlag, 2021.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (308 pages).
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Pederséen, Olof, Babylon (Print version:) | ISSN: 9783963271366
Online Zugang: Available online
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1 Babylon: General Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Archaeological sources for the buildings -- 1.3 Historical sources for the buildings -- 1.4 The river and the groundwater -- 1.5 Critical questions -- 1.5.1 Correctness of documentation -- 1.5.2 Heights of walls -- 1.6 Building materials -- 2 Babylon: City Walls and City Gates -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 History of the city walls and city gates -- 2.1.2 Excavations of the city walls -- 2.1.3 Texts and pictures dealing with city walls -- 2.1.4 Layout and construction of the city walls -- 2.2 City walls during Nabopolassar's reign, with earlier remains -- 2.3 City walls during Nebuchadnezzar's reign -- 2.3.1 The mudbrick walls -- 2.3.2 The baked brick walls -- 2.4 The Ištar Gate area during Nebuchadnezzar's reign -- 2.5 City walls after Nebuchadnezzar -- 2.6 Full-scale reconstructions in Berlin and Babylon -- 2.7 Amounts of building materials for the city walls -- 3 Babylon: Palaces -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 South Palace -- 3.2.1 The older South Palace -- 3.2.2 South Palace: Entrance and East Courtyard area -- 3.2.3 South Palace: Middle Courtyard area -- 3.2.4 South Palace: Main Courtyard area -- 3.2.5 South Palace: West Courtyard area -- 3.2.6 South Palace: Annex Courtyard area -- 3.2.7 South Palace: Discussion -- 3.3 North Palace -- 3.3.1 North Palace: The terraces -- 3.3.2 North Palace: Water installations -- 3.3.3 The North Palace and the Gardens -- 3.4 West Fortification -- 3.5 East Fortification -- 3.6 The central palace area -- 3.7 Summer Palace -- 4 Babylon: Temples -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Marduk temple -- 4.3 Ziggurat -- 4.3.1 The precinct -- 4.3.2 The ziggurat -- 4.3.3 Amounts of building materials for the ziggurat -- 4.4 Other temples in the Eridu area according to cuneiform texts -- 4.5 Nabû temple -- 4.6 Ištar temple. 
505 8 |a 4.7 Ašratum temple -- 4.8 Ninmaḫ temple -- 4.9 Ninurta temple -- 4.10 Išḫara temple -- 4.11 Temples in the unexcavated areas of Babylon -- 5 Babylon: Main Streets -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Euphrates bridge -- 5.3 West-east Processional Way -- 5.4 South-north Processional Way: Southern stretch -- 5.5 South-north Processional Way: Missing section -- 5.6 South-north Processional Way: Outside the South Palace -- 5.7 South–north Processional Way: Through the Ištar Gate -- 5.8 South-north Processional Way: Outside the North Palace -- 5.9 Streets in residential areas -- 6 Babylon: Residential Buildings -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Old Babylonian and Middle Babylonian private houses -- 6.3 Neo-Babylonian private houses -- 6.3.1 German excavations in Merkes -- 6.3.2 Iraqi excavations in Merkes -- 6.3.3 Iraqi excavations north of Merkes -- 7 Babylon: Late Buildings -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Hellenistic and Parthian theatre -- 7.3 Parthian colonnaded street -- 7.4 Large Parthian building -- 7.5 Sasanian fortification above the ziggurat ruins -- 7.6 Sasanian fortification above the Summer Palace ruins -- 8 Babylon: Discussion and Conclusions -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Construction materials -- 8.3 Building structure -- 8.4 Surface decoration -- 8.5 Building documentation -- 8.6 Elevations and periods -- 8.7 Reconstructions in Babylon -- 8.8 Future -- Bibliography -- Digital resources -- Appendix: Periods and Rulers. 
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