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    This document provides a site list for a lecture on Mesopotamian architecture and urbanism, including key terms and important sites from various periods. It lists prehistoric sites like Çatal Hüyük in Turkey, as well as important Sumerian sites like the Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu in Ur, Iraq. Neo-Babylonian sites featured include the Ishtar Gate in Babylon, and Assyrian sites list the Palace of Sargon II. Later Persian sites include the Palace of Persepolis in Iran.

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    This document provides a site list for a lecture on Mesopotamian architecture and urbanism, including key terms and important sites from various periods. It lists prehistoric sites like Çatal Hüyük in Turkey, as well as important Sumerian sites like the Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu in Ur, Iraq. Neo-Babylonian sites featured include the Ishtar Gate in Babylon, and Assyrian sites list the Palace of Sargon II. Later Persian sites include the Palace of Persepolis in Iran.

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    SITE LIST – LECTURE 1: MESOPOTAMIA

    ARCH 4211 /5211: A History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism I


    FALL 2010

    Key Terms

    Arch (Column) Base Orthogonal


    Buttress (Column) Capital Keystone
    Colonnade (Column) Shaft True Arch
    Column Voussoir

    Key Sites

    Prehistoric
    - Çatal Hü yük(Turkey), ca. 6500-5700 BCE
    Sumerian
    - Ur (Iraq), ca. 2100 BCE
    o Zigguarat of Ur-Nammu
    - Temple, Eridu (Iraq), ca. 3800 BCE
    - White Temple, Uruk (Iraq), ca. 3500-3000 BCE
    Neo-Babylonian
    - Babylon (Iraq), ca. 605-540 BCE
    o Ishtar Gate
    Assyrian
    - Palace of Sargon II, Khorsobad (Iraq), ca. 720 BCE
    Persian
    - Palace of Persepolis (Iran), ca. 518 BCE

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