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Etemenanki, the Glossary

Table of Contents

  1. 45 relations: Alexander the Great, Andrew R. George, Antiochus I Soter, É (temple), Babylon, Babylonian astronomical diaries, Babylonian Chronicles, Baghdad, Bel (mythology), Belus (Babylonian), Cella, Civilization VI, Compressive strength, Cuneiform, Damals, Diodorus Siculus, Enūma Eliš, Esagila, Esarhaddon, George Smith (Assyriologist), Hammurabi, Hellenization, Herodotus, Histories (Herodotus), Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, List of tallest structures built before the 20th century, Louvre, Lucasfilm Games, Marduk, McGraw Hill Education, Mesopotamia, Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar II, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Pergamon Museum, Robert Koldewey, Schøyen Collection, Seleucid Empire, Sennacherib, Statics, Stele, Strabo, Tower of Babel, Uruk, Ziggurat.

  2. Babylon
  3. Buildings and structures completed in the 6th century BC
  4. Demolished buildings and structures in Iraq
  5. Tower of Babel
  6. Ziggurats

Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

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Andrew R. George

Andrew R. George (born 1955) is a British Assyriologist and academic best known for his edition and translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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Antiochus I Soter

Antiochus I Soter (Ἀντίοχος Σωτήρ, Antíochos Sōtér; "Antiochus the Savior"; 2 June 261 BC) was a Macedonian king of the Seleucid Empire.

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É (temple)

É (Cuneiform) is the Sumerian word or symbol for house or temple.

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Babylon

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.

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Babylonian astronomical diaries

The Babylonian astronomical diaries are a collection of Babylonian cuneiform texts that contain systematic records of astronomical observations and political events as well as predictions, based on astronomical observations.

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Babylonian Chronicles

The Babylonian Chronicles are a loosely-defined series of about 45 tablets recording major events in Babylonian history.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Bel (mythology)

Bêl (from bēlu) is a title signifying 'lord' or 'master' applied to various gods in the Mesopotamian religion of Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia.

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Belus (Babylonian)

Belus or Belos (Ancient Greek: Βῆλος, Belos) in classical Greek or classical Latin texts (and later material based on them) in a Babylonian context refers to the Babylonian god Bel Marduk.

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Cella

In Classical architecture, a cella or is the inner chamber of an ancient Greek or Roman temple.

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Civilization VI

Sid Meier's Civilization VI is a turn-based strategy 4X video game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K.

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Compressive strength

In mechanics, compressive strength (or compression strength) is the capacity of a material or structure to withstand loads tending to reduce size (compression).

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Cuneiform

Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.

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Damals

Damals is a German monthly popular scientific history magazine.

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Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (Diódōros; 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek historian.

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Enūma Eliš

(Akkadian Cuneiform:, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), meaning "When on High", is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words) from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the only complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology.

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Esagila

The Ésagila or Esangil (𒂍𒊕𒅍𒆷, "temple whose top is lofty") was a temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of Babylon.

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Esarhaddon

Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (𒀭𒊹𒉽𒀸, also 𒀭𒊹𒉽𒋧𒈾, meaning "Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sennacherib in 681 BC to his own death in 669.

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George Smith (Assyriologist)

George Smith (26 March 1840 – 19 August 1876) was a pioneering English Assyriologist who first discovered and translated the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest-known written works of literature.

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Hammurabi

Hammurabi (𒄩𒄠𒈬𒊏𒁉|translit.

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Hellenization

Hellenization (also spelled Hellenisation) or Hellenism is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks.

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.

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Histories (Herodotus)

The Histories (Ἱστορίαι, Historíai; also known as The History) of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature.

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Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is an action-adventure video game by LucasArts released in 1999.

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List of tallest structures built before the 20th century

List of pre-twentieth century structures by height.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.

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Lucasfilm Games

Lucasfilm Games (known as LucasArts between 1990 and 2021) is an American video game licensor and a subsidiary of Lucasfilm.

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Marduk

Marduk (Cuneiform: ᵈAMAR.UTU; Sumerian: "calf of the sun; solar calf") is a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon who eventually rose to power in the First Millennium BC.

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McGraw Hill Education

McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Nabopolassar

Nabopolassar (𒀭𒉺𒀀𒉽|translit.

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Nebuchadnezzar II

Nebuchadnezzar II (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir"; Biblical Hebrew: Nəḇūḵaḏneʾṣṣar), also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his own death in 562 BC.

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Neo-Babylonian Empire

The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia until Faisal II in the 20th century.

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Pergamon Museum

The Pergamon Museum is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany.

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Robert Koldewey

Robert Johann Koldewey (10 September 1855 – 4 February 1925) was a German archaeologist, famous for his in-depth excavation of the ancient city of Babylon in modern-day Iraq.

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Schøyen Collection

The Schøyen Collection is one of the largest private manuscript collections in the world, mostly located in Oslo and London.

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Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire (lit) was a Greek power in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.

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Sennacherib

Sennacherib (𒀭𒌍𒉽𒈨𒌍𒋢|translit.

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Statics

Statics is the branch of classical mechanics that is concerned with the analysis of force and torque acting on a physical system that does not experience an acceleration, but rather is in equilibrium with its environment.

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Stele

A stele,From Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai; the plural in English is sometimes stelai based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles.) or occasionally stela (stelas or stelæ) when derived from Latin, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument.

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Strabo

StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.

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Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. Etemenanki and Tower of Babel are Babylon and ziggurats.

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Uruk

Uruk, known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river.

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Ziggurat

A ziggurat (Cuneiform: 𒅆𒂍𒉪, Akkadian: ziqqurratum, D-stem of zaqārum 'to protrude, to build high', cognate with other Semitic languages like Hebrew zaqar (זָקַר) 'protrude') is a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia. Etemenanki and ziggurat are ziggurats.

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See also

Babylon

Buildings and structures completed in the 6th century BC

Demolished buildings and structures in Iraq

Tower of Babel

Ziggurats

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etemenanki

Also known as Etamnanki.