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Collection Structure Maciej Milczanowski photographs >  Nippur
Item Title Nippur
Collection Title Maciej Milczanowski photographs
Creator Milczanowski, Maciej
Date Created 2005/2006
Description 1-7: First look at the ziggurat in Nippur and northern side of the city 8-9: Wall surrounding the ziggurat and the temple area 10: Eastern part of the temple yard 11: Walls 12: Kind of storage prepared in later times, when the ziggurats were used as defensive structures and lost their sacred character. Views from the top of the ziggurat 13-14: Southern part of the temple yard 15-16: Large temple of goddess Inanna 17: Another part of the walls surrounding the temple 18-19: The inside of the brick structure at the top of the ziggurat 20-21: Southern part of the temple yard and further the elevation called the hill of the thousand plates, where the plates were lying in the ground; the Kline texts writing from that place told a large part of the history of the Sumer 22-25: Looking from the top of the ziggurat 26-30: Place of the last excavations made by American archeologists until 2004 31-36: Southern part of the temple yard 37-39: Walls of the ziggurat 40: Gate in the southern wall 41-45: Southern part of the temple yard
Language(s) Polish
Format Still Image
Medium photographs
Record Number 2016C13.9
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84x5d8h
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