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The walling of Babylon (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Building the heavenly city 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas 01.01.07 Establishment of cosmos 01.01.07.03 Building the heavenly city Establishment of cosmos 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas 01.01.07 Establishment of cosmos	Keywords Babylon Berossus walls
Period 3rd century BCE Hellenistic Empires	Channel Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F1:
They say that everything originally was water and was called Thalassa. Bel restrained it, assigning a place to each thing, and he surrounded Babylon with a wall. But with the passage of time it disappeared and Nabouchodonosoros again built a wall with bronze gates which lasted until the Macedonian domination.

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F1

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 17

Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

Amar Annus

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