SUMERIANARCHITECTURE

Ziggurat

●EANNA DISTRICT OF UR4000 ~ 3100

BC

Cone Mosaic Building

Great Court

Red Temple

Limestone Temple

Ubaid Temple

Great Hall Bldg

Stone Cone

Building

RoundPillarHall

Pillar

Hall

Ziggurat

●ANNU DISTRICT OF UR4000 ~ 3100

BCWhite

Temple

ERIDU TEMPLE

●THE TEMPLE OVAL, KHAFAJI2600 BC

• Located in North East of Baghdad

●THE TEMPLE OVAL, KHAFAJI2600 BC

• Before construction, the whole temple was dug down to a virgin soil, through the accumulated depth of earlier building levels.- The dug area was filled with

clean sand

• Located in North East of Baghdad

●THE TEMPLE OVAL, KHAFAJI2600 BC

• Before construction, the whole temple was dug down to a virgin soil, through the accumulated depth of earlier building levels.- Foundations of a depth

greater than structurally requisite were laid in sand.

• Located in North East of Baghdad

●THE TEMPLE OVAL, KHAFAJI2600 BC

• Before construction, the whole temple was dug down to a virgin soil, through the accumulated depth of earlier building levels.- Finally, clay packed down

against the walls (assurance of a purity of the soil underneath the temple)

●THE TEMPLE OVAL, KHAFAJI2600 BC

●THE TEMPLE OVAL, KHAFAJI2600 BC

- The corners are oriented on the four cardinal points.

NORTH

A TERRACE TYPE TEMPLE WITHOUT A ZIGGURAT

●THE TEMPLE COMPLEX, ISCHALI1950 ~1850 BC

●THE TEMPLE COMPLEX, ISCHALI1950 ~1850 BC

Rectangular in Plan, with a large main terrace and an upper one in which temple lay at right angles to the chief axis

●THE TEMPLE COMPLEX, ISCHALI

ISHTAR – Is the assyrian and babylonian counterpart to the Summerian Innana and to the cognate of Semitic Goddes Astarte.

1950 ~1850 BC

ISHTAR – Is a goddess of Fertility, Love, War & Sex

●THE TEMPLE COMPLEX, ISCHALI1950 ~1850 BC