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Marduk’s temple in Babylon (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs


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

Text
Diodorus Siculus 2.9.4:
After this she (= Semiramis) built in the centre of the city a temple of Zeus whom, as we have said, the Babylonians call Belus. Now since with regard to this temple the historians are at variance, and since time has caused the structure to fall in ruins, it is impossible to give the exact facts concerning it. But all agree that it was exceedingly high, and that in it the Chaldeans made their observations of the stars, whose risings and settings could be accurately observed by reason of the height of the structure.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Diodorus Siculus 2.9.4

Bibliography

Oldfather 1960, I 380-381Oldfather, C. H. Diodorus of Sicily. 12 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.

Amar Annus


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