Ziggurat : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Ziggurat / dynamosquito
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| 説明 | The elamite ziggurat of Tchogha Zambil, province of Khuzestan, Iran, April 2008This ziggurat has been builded by elamite king Untash-Napirisha, and was originaly called Dur Untash Napirisha ( the fortress of Untash-Napirisha), in 1250 BCE. It was a temple dedicated to the cult of Inshushinak, god of the Susiana province, and of other gods of the elamite pantheon such as Napirisha, Ishme-karab, and Kiririsha. Being world's best preserved ziggurat, it survived earthquakes and erosion despite being buided with sun dried mud bricks. its architecture is exceptional, consisting in a serial of 5 rectangular floors, all around the others, the central one being the highest. the floors were in fact all juxtaposed directly on the soil, instead of being on the other. For the 2 last centuries, scholars considered ziggurats as being the hallmark of mesopotamia, the others were then supposed to be copies under the influence of mesopotamian art. The story of the babel Tower having probably influenced the scholars. Recent advances in archaeologia proved this idea wrong, as bigger and older ziggurats were found in Pakistan (Mundigak) and in Iran (Konar sandal). Another ziggurat was attested at Susa, mentioned by the assyrian stela of Assurbanipal found at niniveh. All those evidences clearly evoke a more eastern origin of the ziggurat, born probably in the east of Iran or in pakistan. |
| 撮影日 | 2008-10-08 17:51:53 |
| 撮影者 | dynamosquito , France |
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| 撮影地 | Khuzestan, Iran 地図 |