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The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon : an elusive world wonder traced / Stephanie Dalley
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013 |
| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
| Umfang: | XVIII, 279 S., [4] Bl. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780198728849 0198728840 9780199662265 0199662266 |
| Anmerkungen: | Literaturverz. S. [245] - 268 |
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| Mehr zum Titel: | Drawing a blank in BabylonClassical writers and their testimony -- Three pictures, and Archimedes -- Sennacherib's great invention -- Engineering for water management -- Confusion of names -- The unrivalled palace, the queen, and the garden -- Symbolism and imitators -- Defeat and revival : Nineveh after 612 BC -- Appendix. The section of prism inscription describing the palace and garden. |
| Zusammenfassung: | "Identifies and locates one of the Ancient World wonders -- New description of a very early garden and the technology behind its water supply -- Identifies the early occurrence of the "Water-raising Screw" -- Links Assyrian texts and sculpture to later classical sources and explains legends surrounding the characters of Semiramis and Nebuchadnezzar -- Reassesses specific sculpture in the British Museum." --Publisher An exciting story of archaeological detection as well as a vividly written description of a little-known civilization. Dalley, a world expert on ancient Babylonian language, describes how deciphering an ancient Assyrian text-- and comparing it to sculpture in the British Museum-- provided the clues that enabled her to pin down where the Garden was positioned and to describe in detail what it may have looked like |