एक आयताकार tiered मंदिर या उन्माद माउंड प्राचीन Assyrians और बेबीलोनियों द्वारा बनाया गया

ziggurat's Usage Examples:

To the north-east of the ziggurat stood, apparently, the House of Bel, and in the courts below the ziggurat stood various other buildings, shrines, treasure chambers and the like.

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.

Huge walls were erected at the edges of the ancient terrace, the courts of the temple were filled with houses and streets, and the ziggurat itself was curiously built over in a cruciform shape, and converted into an acropolis for the fortress.

In its final form this temple and tower were the work of Nebuchadrezzar, but from the clay cylinders found by Sir Henry Rawlinson in two of the corners of the tower it appears that he restored an incomplete ziggurat of a former king, "which was long since fallen into decay."

This represents the ancient ziggurat of the temple of Shamash, which was in part explored by Loftus.

corner of the platform, above the remains of an older similar palace of Shalmaneser; (f) two small temples of Assur-nasir-pal, in connexion with the ziggurat in the N.W.

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.

In the west corner stood a temple, with a stagetower (ziggurat) adjoining.

Access to the stages of the ziggurat, from the court beneath, was had by an inclined plane on the south-east side.

representing the ziggurat, or stage-tower, of the principal temple.

ziggurat's Meaning':

a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians