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Ziggurats
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Ziggurats
Albert and Paloma
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/mesopotamia/ziggurats.php
- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/zigg/hd_zigg.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/technology/ziggurat
- https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/ancient-near-east1/sumerian/a/ziggurat-of-ur
Conclusion
- First created by sumerians, then caught on
- Very religous
- Has sometimes decorative mud bricks
- One god lives in each ziggurat
When and how ziggurats got discovered
How ziggurats were built
- Built on mini temples
- Made with mud bricks
- Sometimes had brick designs
- they were first built by sumerians
- Babylonians, Elamites, Akkadians, and Assyrians also built ziggurats
Example of design on bricks
from a ziggurat
The core
- Always have mud brick core
- No chambers inside the core
Mud Bricks
- Weigh 33 pounds
- 11.5 x 11.5 x 2.75 in.
- Sometimes built with colorful bricks
discovery site ->
Purpose of ziggurats
- "Bridge of heaven and earth"
- To communicate with the gods
- For the gods to take offerings
- For the god to live in
What a ziggurat is
Each god has a power
- Each god has one power
- There is one god in each city
- Gods are immortaland help if given offerings
Lived on top of ziggurats
- Top of ziggurat is very decorative
- Can be different colors such as blue
- Lives above the temple
- Priests communicate there
- stepped tower
- temple that has levels
- home for gods
- the gods live at the top
- stepped pyramid-like structure
Gave offerings to gods
- Priests delivered offerings from town people
- Made statues to represent them praying to the gods
- Ruler gave offerings too
Building site ->
Etumnanki ziggurat
One of the most massive ziggurats is the Etumnanki ziggurat. Not much is left of this ziggurat but this is what it may have looked like.
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