Temple of Marduk at Babylon
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Temple of Mardux at Babylon
Date
-604--562Description
Several temples have been excavated at the site, the most notable being that of Marduk himself, called Esagila. First referred to in Old Babylonian texts, this lay about 1 km south of the royal palaces, beneath the highest of Babylon’s surviving mounds, a situation that has seriously hindered its archaeological investigation. There were a number of individual shrines in the main temple; the principal shrine, that of Marduk, lying to the west and entered through a monumental towered façade. Of its inner cella Nebuchadnezzar said in one of the inscriptions that he ‘covered its wall with sparkling gold’ and ‘caused it to shine like the sun’. axonometric projection
Type of Work
TempleSubject
Temples, Egypt --Antiquities, Archaeological sites --Egypt, Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia, d. 562 B.C., Marduk (Babylonian deity), Gods, Assyro-Babylonian
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