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Hanging Gardens of Babylon (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Garden 02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs 02.04 Botanical symbols, imagery and iconographic motifs 02.04.01 Garden Royal court 08 Administrative systems 08.01 Royal court Royal inscriptions 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.11 Historiography 05.11.01 Royal inscriptions	Keywords palaces
Period Neo-Assyrian Empire	Channel Neo-Assyrian texts

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Sennacherib built a palace in Nineveh for her beloved queen beside which the famous Hanging Gardens were constructed.

“And for Tašmetum-šarrat the queen, my beloved wife, whose form the Great Goddess has made more beautiful than any other women, I have had a palace of love, joy and pleasure built. At the command of Aššur, father of the gods and queen Ištar may we both live long in this palace and enjoy happiness to the full.”

Bibliography

Borger 1988, 5-11	Borger, R. “König Sanherib's Eheglück.” Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project 6 (1988) 5-11.
Dalley and Reyes 1998, 118	Dalley, S. and A. T. Reyes. “Mesopotamian Contact and Influence in the Greek World.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 85-124.

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