Identifier: historyofallnati02wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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sing by a series ofstages to the elevated platform on which the jxdace itself was reared.More important, however, than this palace, wiiich stood in or near thesnl)iubs of the city, was tiie one that Nel)uchadn(zzar, nsing in partearlier structures, erectccl as his official residence in the centre of the .\WNUMENTS AT BABYLON. 131 citv, and wliicli has now been discovered by the German expeditionbeneath the nionnd El-Kasr. This palace consisted of two wingsconnected by a corridor; but not satisfied with this, the king added tothis double palace a third structure adjoining it at the south. Theofficial residence lay at the sacred procession street—the main thorough-fiire of Babylon—along which on New Years Day and presumably onother holidays the image of Marduk was carried, accompanied by theother deities forming his court, from his shrine in E-sagila to thesacred chamber of fates, just beyond the palace, and where heremained during the first eleven days of the sacred week with which
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Fig. 29. — Birs Niiurud, the traditional Tower vf Bal.fl. (^ Alter Ui.i)ert.) the year began. The name of the sacred street was Ai-bur-shabura,meaning, May the enemy not )>revail. It led, as stated, directly tothe sacred areawithin which :\Iarduks temple stood, the site of whichhas now been identified at the third mound Amran-ibn-Ali. Thename of the temple E-sagila—i.e., the Lofty House—was appliedalso to the very extensive area around the sanctuary, which was filledwith shrines, chapels for the other gods worshipped at Babylon, withdwellings fi.r the priests, archives, courts of justice, and the like. Thestage-tower kn..wn as E-temen-an-ki, Foundation of Heaven andEarth, lav tc tlie nortli of the temple proper, and formed part, of course,of what was kn.Avn as E-sagila in tlie wider sense of the temple area. J 32 -4.SL4 AFTER THE FALL OF ASSYRIA. The business and residence portion of Babylon is represented by thesouthernmost mound Dschimdschime, where, however, systematic exc

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