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Marduk’s temple in the first century Babylon (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery





06 Visual arts and architecture
Keywords
Babylon
temples
Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire
Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars


Text
Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 6.30:
The temple of Jupiter Belus in Babylon is still standing - Belus was the discoverer of the science of astronomy; but in all other respects the place has gone back to a desert.


Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 6.30

Bibliography

Jones and Rackham 1938-1963, III 430-431Jones, W. H. S. and H. Rackham. Pliny, Natural History. 10 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1938-1963.

Amar Annus


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