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Berossus on Nebuchadnezzar (2)

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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 Heavenly palace 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.05 Celestial imagery 01.05.06 Heavenly palace	Keywords Babylon Berossus Hanging Gardens Nebuchadnezzar palaces
Period 3rd century BCE 1st century CE Hellenistic Empires Roman Empire	Channel Hellenistic philosophers and scholars Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F8 (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.140-141):
After he had walled the city in notable fashion and adorned its gates in a manner befitting a holy place, he built another palace next to the palace of his father. It would perhaps be tedious to describe the height and the rest of the richness of this palace. Despite its extraordinary size and splendour, however, it was completed in fifteen days. In this palace he built and arranged the so-called Hanging Gardens by setting up high stone terraces which he made appear very similar to mountains planted with all kinds of trees. He did this because his wife who had been raised in Media longed for mountainous surroundings.

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F8
Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.140-141

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 27	Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.
Verbrugghe and Wickersham 2000, 59	Verbrugghe, Gerald P. and John M. Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho. Introduced and Translated. Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 2000.

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