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Record 1 1997-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

A Mesopotamian temple tower; from the end of the 3rd millennium B.C. on, ziggurats rose in three to seven stages, diminishing in area and often in height, square (Sumer) or rectangular (Assyria), built of mud brick and faced with baked brick laid in bitumen; had outside staircase and a shrine at the top.

DEF

An Assyrian or Babylonian temple-tower in the form of a truncated pyramid in diminishing stages, each stage being reached by ramps.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
DEF

Édifice religieux d'origine mésopotamienne, fait de la superposition de plates-formes de dimensions décroissantes, dont la plus petite, au sommet, porte une chapelle.

Spanish

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