| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Drawing a blank in Babylon -- Classical 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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Subject |
Gardens -- Iraq -- Babylon (Extinct city) -- History.
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Babylon (Extinct city) -- History.
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Seven Wonders of the World.
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Assyria -- History.
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History, Ancient.
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Archaeology and history -- Middle East.
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| Added Title |
Hanging Garden of Babylon |
| ISBN |
9780199662265: $34.95 |
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0199662266 |
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