The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon : an elusive world wonder traced /
"Identifies and locates one of the Ancient World wonders -- New description of a very early garden and the technology behind its water supply -- Identifies the early occurrence of the "Water-raising Screw" -- Links Assyrian texts and sculpture to later classical sources and explains l...
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Call Number: DS70.5 .B3 D34 2013
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon : |b an elusive world wonder traced / |c Stephanie Dalley. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Hanging Garden of Babylon. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford, United Kingdom : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2013. | |
| 300 | |a xviii, 279 pages, 8 pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; |c 22 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-268) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Drawing a blank in Babylon -- Classical writers and their testimony -- Three pictures, and Archimedes -- Sennacherib's great invention -- Engineering for water management -- Confusion of names -- The unrivalled palace, the queen, and the garden -- Symbolism and imitators -- Defeat and revival : Nineveh after 612 BC -- Appendix. The section of prism inscription describing the palace and garden. | |
| 520 | |a "Identifies and locates one of the Ancient World wonders -- New description of a very early garden and the technology behind its water supply -- Identifies the early occurrence of the "Water-raising Screw" -- Links Assyrian texts and sculpture to later classical sources and explains legends surrounding the characters of Semiramis and Nebuchadnezzar -- Reassesses specific sculpture in the British Museum." --Publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Archaeology and history |z Middle East. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Gardens |z Iraq |z Babylon (Extinct city) |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a History, Ancient. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Seven Wonders of the World. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Assyria |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Babylon (Extinct city) |x History. | |
| 901 | |a reviewed | ||
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