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The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon : an elusive world wonder traced
- Title
- The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon : an elusive world wonder traced / Stephanie Dalley.
- Author
- Dalley, Stephanie.
- Publication
- Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 279 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, plans; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Identifies and locates one of the Ancient World wonders -- New description of a very early garden and the technology behind its water supply -- Identifies the early occurrence of the "Water-raising Screw" -- Links Assyrian texts and sculpture to later classical sources and explains legends surrounding the characters of Semiramis and Nebuchadnezzar -- Reassesses specific sculpture in the British Museum." --Publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Hanging Garden of Babylon
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-268) and index.
- Contents
- Drawing a blank in Babylon -- Classical writers and their testimony -- Three pictures, and Archimedes -- Sennacherib's great invention -- Engineering for water management -- Confusion of names -- The unrivalled palace, the queen, and the garden -- Symbolism and imitators -- Defeat and revival : Nineveh after 612 BC -- Appendix. The section of prism inscription describing the palace and garden.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-4488
- ISBN
- 9780199662265
- 0199662266
- OCLC
- 809032332
- Author
- Dalley, Stephanie.
- Title
- The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon : an elusive world wonder traced / Stephanie Dalley.
- Imprint
- Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-268) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-4488