ziggurat
IPA: zˈɪgɝæt
noun
- A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories
- Any building with similar style or shape.
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Examples of "ziggurat" in Sentences
- I destroyed the ziggurat of Susa.
- Note that he doesn't name the Ziggurat.
- BT , great work with the Ziggurat article.
- For example, look at the Sumerian ziggurat.
- An even faster algorithm is the ziggurat algorithm.
- The Ziggurat of Ur is the best example of this style.
- He apparently worked on the unfinished ziggurat at Eridu.
- Another practical function of the ziggurat was for security.
- The core of the ziggurat consists of sun dried square bricks.
- A trough running parallel to the staircase was used to drain the ziggurat.
- He poked at the humid ziggurat with the machete he'd been using to cut path.
- This so called ziggurat is just decadent housing for all the children and wives of the shieks.
- Now the contents of Pro Tools are packed into a ziggurat of boxes threatening to engulf his small Brooklyn studio.
- SHUSTER: The ziggurat is the nearby remains of an ancient pyramid from the Samarian city of Ur, dating back more than 4,000 years.
- A ziggurat was a tall, stepped temple-tower believed to connect heaven and earth - hence the angels ascending and descending the steps.
- "The life of a slave was not an easy thing, so we tried to convey that in the scaffolding around the ziggurat, which is just put together with twine.
- That moment found Op de Beeck's camera alighting on a ziggurat-like palace that looked so grand, yet flimsy, that you were sure it was made of cardboard or paper.
- The achievement is all the more remarkable given that Bruneau's intimate, visually spare production includes a stage-wide mirror, positioned just behind the ziggurat of black risers that is the other major set element.