Non User
  Index: > A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Business
Non User
 Industries Finance Tax

Home > Etemenanki


Etemenanki, "The temple of the creation of heaven and earth", was the name of a ziggurat to Marduk in the city of Babylon of the 6th century BC Chaldean (Neo-Babylonian) dynasty. Originally seven stories in height, little remains of it now save ruins. Etemenanki was later popularly identified with the Tower of Babel.

1 Construction

The city of Babylon had been destroyed in 689 BC by Sennacherib, and was restored by Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar II. It took 88 years to rebuild. Its central feature was the temple of Marduk ( Esagila ), to which the Etemenanki ziggurat was associated. The seven stories of the zigurrat reached a height of 91 meters, and contained a temple shrine at the top.

2 Descriptions

The Etemenanki is described in a cuneiform tablet from Uruk from 229 BC, a copy of an older text (now in the Louvre in Paris). It gives the height of the tower as seven stocks (91 meters) with a base of 91 meters square. This was confirmed by excavations conducted by Robert Koldewey after 1913. Large stairs were discovered at the south side of the building, where a triple gate connected the it with the Esagila . A larger gate to the east connected the Etemenanki with the sacred procession road (now reconstructed in the Pergamon museum in BerlinBerlin [ bɛrˈliːn ] is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4. 5 million before World War II. Berlin is located on the rivers Spree and Havel in the northea).


3 References in popular culture

Etemenanki is also the name of a website by Goro Adachi which attempts to "connect-the-dots" between modern events and ancient myth.

4 External link

(The tower of Babel) by Jona Lendering


BabyloniaBabylonia was an ancient state in Mesopotamia (in modern Iraq), combining the territories of Sumer and Akkad. Its capital was Babylon. The earliest mention of Babylon can be found in a tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 23rd centur

Politics Business Finance
Etemenanki Height Temple Meters Connected City

Topics: Etemenanki Height Temple Meters Connected City Babylon Tower...

EtemenankiEtemenanki "The temple of the creation of heaven and earth", was the name of a ziggurat to Marduk in the city of Babylon of the 6th century BC Chaldean (Neo-Babylonian) dynasty. Originally seven stories in height, little remains of it now save ruins.  


Non User