Ziggurats Definition

(among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about. Pot farm grass roots game.

Sentence Examples. Semispheres switch review. Representing the ziggurat, or stage-tower, of the principal temple.

Definition

Access to the stages of the ziggurat, from the court beneath, was had by an inclined plane on the south-east side. In the west corner stood a temple, with a stagetower ( ziggurat) adjoining. The approach to this ziggurat was toward the north-east, and on this side lay also the principal rooms of the temple of which this was the tower. The city was divided into two parts by a canal, on an island in which stood the temple, E-mach, with a ziggurat, or stage tower.