Dur Untashi (modern Chogha Zanbil) (Middle Elamite period) : Ziggurat of Inshushinak, the chief god of Elam, second half of 2nd millennium BC
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Parrot, Andre
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Built by Elamite king Untashgal, destroyed under Ashurbanipal of Assyria (668-630) and has since been uninhabited. The subdivision of the inner part of the ziggurat into rooms was entirely foreign to Mesopotamia, where the temple towers were always quite massive. The stairways have also been built in a different way. They were not placed in front of the terraces as in Mesopotamia, but sunk into them on all four sides. Several thousand glazed terracotta pegs which were lying on the slope and at the foot of the ziggurat may once have decorated its facade. They couuld also have come from the temple presumably situated at the top. See also : Eva Strommenger, The Art of Mesopotamia, translated by Christina Haglund, London, Thames & Hudson, 1964, pp. 431-2.
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1960
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