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It rather resembles a group of exaggerated sandhills, rising at one point into a blunt pyramid, the Ziggurat.
THE CRADLE OF MANKINDW.A. WIGRAMTo his surprise he found the passage he had followed opened perhaps halfway up what must be the great Ziggurat of Beelzebub.
ASTOUNDING STORIES, MARCH, 1931VARIOUSThe ziggurat was surrounded by an enclosure, some 400 yards square, the ingress and egress to which was by means of bronze gates.
MESOPOTAMIAN ARCHAEOLOGYPERCY S. P. HANDCOCKThe ziggurat at Muḳeyyer60 (Ur) excavated by Taylor similarly appears to have been three-storied, or possibly only two-storied.
MESOPOTAMIAN ARCHAEOLOGYPERCY S. P. HANDCOCKThe inscribed bricks proved that this chamber, like the ziggurat itself was built by Ur-Engur.
MESOPOTAMIAN ARCHAEOLOGYPERCY S. P. HANDCOCKThis represents the ancient ziggurat of the temple of Shamash, which was in part explored by Loftus.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 16, SLICE 2VARIOUSIstar of Babylon, grant me an hour wherein I may hold speech with you—here, or without—upon the ziggurat.
ISTAR OF BABYLONMARGARET HORTON POTTERStealthily now she drew aside the curtain and looked out upon the narrow platform of the ziggurat.
ISTAR OF BABYLONMARGARET HORTON POTTERAs 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 BABYLONMARGARET HORTON POTTERBit-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 BABYLONMARGARET HORTON POTTERWORDS RELATED TO ZIGGURAT
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