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|Folklore = [[Babylonian mythology]] ...relimbs, a long neck and tail, two horns on its head, a snake-like tongue, and a crest. The {{lang|akk-Latn|mušḫuššu}} most famously appears on the [[Isht ...

...de and the access staircase of the ziggurat. The actual remains of the Neo-Babylonian structure can be seen at the top. ...2</sup><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mattinson|first1=Lindsay|title=Understanding Architecture A Guide To Architectural Styles|date=2019|publisher=Amber Books|isbn=978-1- ...

...he Metropolitan Museum of Art'', pp. 303-312, 1988, Metropolitan Museum of Art, {{ISBN|0870995251}}, 9780870995255, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5sx ....org/toah/works-of-art/L.1995.48.2 |publisher=[[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |accessdate=March 30, 2014}}</ref> ...

|death_date = {{death-date and age|4 February 1925|10 September 1855}} |known_for = [[Babylonian Excavations]] ...

| architecture_type = {{nowrap|[[Synagogue architecture]]}} ...|[[Historicism (art)#Architecture|Historicism]]|[[Art Nouveau architecture|Art Nouveau]]}} ...

{{further|Achaemenid architecture}} [[File:History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria (1903) (14584070300).jpg|thumb|[[Apadana of Susa]], reconstruction ...

...reign was marked by the violent uprisings of areas conquered by his father and the abandonment of several important cities (primarily in {{Nowrap|1=[[Sume | title = Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history, reprint edition ...

...tanical rosette]], formed by leaves radiating out from the stem of a plant and visible even after the flowers have withered. ...[[Star of Ishtar]].<ref>Black, Jeremy; Green, Anthony (1992), Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary, The British Muse ...

...nthian capital.<ref>"Volute". ''A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture''. James Stevens Curl. Oxford University Press, 2006</ref> ...e|Roman]] architect [[Vitruvius]] through the study of classical buildings and structures. ...

...istants, possibly based in Verdun, commissions in Cologne, northern France and outside Vienna required him to travel frequently. ...e Year 1200|last2=Deuchler|first2=Florens|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|year=1970|location=New York}}</ref> ...

...ts architecture and testimony to the evolution of museums as architectural and social phenomena.<ref name = "unesco">{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.or ...us [[Pergamon Altar]], the {{Lang|de|italics=no|Vorderasiatisches Museum}} and the {{Lang|de|italics=no|Museum für Islamische Kunst}}. ...

...g Louvre AO6620.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Cylinder-seal of the [[Uruk period]] and its impression, c.3100 BC. [[Louvre Museum]].]] [[File:Flickr - Nic's events - British Museum with Cory and Mary, 6 Sep 2007 - 185.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Cylinder seal of [[First Dynas ...

...called a '''''lamassuse''''')<ref>Kriwaczek, Paul. ''Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization'', p. 37.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.to ...; The Babylonian and Assyrian Legends Concerning the Creation of the World and of Mankind|page=78}}</ref> ...

...d issued official standards such as [[Statues of Gudea|Statue B of Gudea]] and the bronze [[cubit]] of [[Nippur]]. ...portion, based on the water gur-cube, according to four basic coefficients and their cubic roots.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}} These coefficien ...

| conventional_long_name = Old Babylonian Empire | common_name = Old Babylonian Empire ...

...uf dem Gaulskopf.jpg|thumb|[[Ancient Rome|Roman]] tower ([[Reconstruction (architecture)|reconstruction]]) at [[Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes|Limes]] – [[Taunus]] ...are distinguished from [[guyed mast|masts]] by their lack of [[guy-wires]] and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures. ...

...hew|Matthew]] the man, [[St Mark|Mark]] the lion, [[St Luke|Luke]] the ox, and [[John the Evangelist|John]] the eagle.]] ...s in one unit. The term is derived from the Greek ''tetra'', meaning four, and ''morph'', shape. ...

...e gate complex was built after the successful Babylonian campaign to Judah and Jerusalem in 586 BCE. However [...] the recorded intensity for the time of ...oured bricks) in low [[relief]] at intervals. The gate was 15 metres high, and the original foundations extended another 14 metres underground.<ref>{{cite ...

...CE, but [[Nabonidus]] had returned to Babylon years before the fall of the Babylonian empire. ...es: "That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean (Babylonian) king was killed, and Darius the Mede received the kingdom."{{sfn|Seow|2003|p=74-75}} ...

...[[painting]], [[weaving]], [[pottery]], [[calligraphy]], [[stonemasonry]] and [[metalworking]]. Additionally, Iraq embraces and celebrates the achievements of its past in pre-[[Islamic]] times as well as ...