عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
DS70.5.B3 D34 2013
DS70
.
5
.
B3
D34
2013
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0199662266
(Number (ISBN
9780199662265
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
dltt
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
an elusive world wonder traced /
First Statement of Responsibility
Stephanie Dalley
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xviii, 279 pages, 8 pages of plates :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (some col.), maps, plans ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-268) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"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
Text of Note
An exciting story of archaeological detection as well as a vividly written description of a little-known civilization. Dalley, a world expert on ancient Babylonian language, describes how deciphering an ancient Assyrian text-- and comparing it to sculpture in the British Museum-- provided the clues that enabled her to pin down where the Garden was positioned and to describe in detail what it may have looked like
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Archaeology and history-- Middle East
Gardens-- Iraq-- Babylon (Extinct city)-- History
History, Ancient
Seven Wonders of the World
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Assyria, History
Babylon (Extinct city), History
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
935
.
5
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
DS70
.
5
.
B3
Book number
D34
2013
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Dalley, Stephanie
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20141118072833.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
rda
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
