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Semiramis built two palaces in Babylon (3)

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02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs




06 Visual arts and architecture



03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices


Keywords
Babylon
paintings
Semiramis
walls
Period
1st century BCE
Roman Empire
Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars


Text
Diodorus Siculus 2.8.6:
And she built within these two yet a third circuit wall, which enclosed an acropolis whose circumference was twenty stades in length, but the height and width of the structure surpassed the dimensions of the middle circuit wall. On both the towers and the walls there were again animals of every kind, ingeniously executed by the use of colours as well as by the realistic imitation of the several types; and the whole had been made to represent a hunt, complete in every detail, of all sorts of wild animals, and their size was more than four cubits. Among the animals, moreover, Semiramis had also been portrayed, on horseback and in the act of hurling a javelin at a leopard, and nearby was her husband Ninus, in the act of thrusting his spear into a lion at close quarters.


Source (list of abbreviations)
Diodorus Siculus 2.8.6

Bibliography

Oldfather 1960, I 378-379Oldfather, C. H. Diodorus of Sicily. 12 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.

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Cf. Semiramis built two palaces in Babylon (1)
Cf. Semiramis built two palaces in Babylon (2)
Cf. Semiramis built two palaces in Babylon (4)

Amar Annus


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