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Sumerian architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Sumerian architecture. The Sumerians of Mesopotamia...Old Testament), the greatest of the Sumerian cities, had two groups of temples connected...the platform. The basic principles of Sumerian architecture were absorbed by their successors...
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Sumerian
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...relating to Sumer, its ancient language, or the early, non-Semitic element it contributed to Babylonian civilization. • n. 1. a member of the indigenous non-Semitic people of ancient Babylonia. 2. the Sumerian language.
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Underworld
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...Egypt. Myth.: Leach, 42] Anunnaki lesser Sumerian underworld deities. [Sumerian Myth.: Ben é t, 41] Aornum entrance...queen of underworld; Persephone equivalent. [Sumerian Myth.: Ben é t, 319 – 320...
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Escape
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...labyrinth with aid from Ariadne. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 31] Tyler, Toby runs away from cruel Uncle Daniel to join circus. [Children ’ s Lit.: Toby Tyler ] Ziusudra Sumerian Noah. [Sumerian Legend: Ben é t, 1116]
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Sumer
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...own calligraphy. They invented cuneiform writing, and many Sumerian tablets have survived, although there were serious losses during...victories of King Hammurabi of Babylon in about 1750 BCE brought Sumerian predominance to an end.
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Ur
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...damaged by a severe flood. By 3000 BC it was one of a number of sizeable Sumerian cities. It was subject to the rule of AKKAD , but emerged c. 2150 as the capital of a new Sumerian empire, under the third dynasty established by Ur-Nammu. The city...
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Bortolotti, Ettore
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...x2019; s L ’ algebra . Among his other contributions is the objective reconstruction of the argumentations of the Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian mathematicians. BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Original Works. Bortolotti ’ s works total...
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Death
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...separate trash cans. [Anglo-Fr. Drama: Beckett Endgame in Weiss, 143] Ereshkigal goddess of death; consort of Nergal. [Sumerian and Akkadian Myth.: Parrinder, 93] extreme unction Roman Catholic sacrament given to a person in danger of dying. [Christianity...
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Gilgamesh, Epics of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...Gilgamesh Epic is a long narrative poem known from tablets and fragments dating from c. 1800 to c. 300 BC. Behind it lie five Sumerian Gilgamesh Epics. The story centres on Gilgamesh's fear of death and the death of his friend Enkidu. The flood story in...
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Sovereignty, Lady
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...dates literature written in any Celtic language. In the hierogamy [Gk hieros , sacred; gamos , marriage] described in a Sumerian hymn (2nd millennium BC), the king must mate with Inanna, queen of heaven and goddess of love and fertility, on New Year...
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