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ABSTRACT THE TEMPLE OF THE MOON GOD AT UR.—The latest despatch of the British Museum and Pennsylvania University Expedition to Ur, which has appeared in the Times, indicates that as a result


of this season's excavations, Mr. F. G. Newton, the architect of the expedition, has been able from the fragmentary indications of scanty walls and broken floors to establish the


original character of the great ziggurat, or tower, of the Temple of the Moon God. Theoretical reconstructions of ziggurats have always assumed from the ground plan that these buildings were


perfectly symmetrical. At Ur this was not the case. The original building of Ur Ungur consisted of two stages, of which the upper was removed in the restoration by Nabonidus. The lower


stage, which was retained, was a rectangle 195 feet by 150 feet, with its corners orientated with the cardinal points. On this Nabonidus erected three stages, on the topmost of which was the


shrine. Three flights of stairs, one in the centre and one at each end, led to the top of the first stage on the north-east side. The upper stages were not of the same proportions as the


lowest, but left at each end a platform wider than that at the sides. From the courtyard on the north-east side, now cleared, the tower presented an imposing scheme of line and colour


whitewashed boundary wall, black parapet, and red brick upper terrace, leading up to the shrine of blue glazed brick. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of


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CITE THIS ARTICLE Research Items. _Nature_ 113, 834–836 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113834a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 07 June 1924 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/113834a0 SHARE


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