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Auteur(s) : Dalley, Stephanie (1943-....) Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon [Texte imprimé] : an elusive world wonder traced / Stephanie Dalley

Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, 2015

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XX-279 p.) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Comprend : 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.

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-268) and index
"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" ; An exciting story of archaeological detection as well as a vividly written description of a little-known civilization. Dalley, a world expert on ancient Babylonian language, describes how deciphering an ancient Assyrian text-- and comparing it to sculpture in the British Museum-- provided the clues that enabled her to pin down where the Garden was positioned and to describe in detail what it may have looked like

Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Hanging Garden of Babylon

Sujet(s) : Archéologie et histoire Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Babylone (Irak ; ville ancienne) -- Histoire Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Babylone (Irak ; ville ancienne) -- Jardins suspendus -- Histoire Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet