About 30 results for ‘Babylon’
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Babylon
Babylon was an Akkadian city-state (founded in 1867 BC by an Amorite dynasty) of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babylon Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a mound, or tell, of broken mud-brick buildings and debris in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The city itself was built upon the Euphrates, and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. Available historical resources suggest that Babylon was at first a small town which had sprung up by the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. The town flourished and attained independence with the rise of the First Amorite Babylonian Dynasty in 1894 BC. Claiming to be the successor of the ancient Eridu, Babylon eclipsed Nippur as the "holy city" of Mesopotamia around the time an Amorite king named Hammurabi first created the short lived Babylonian Empire; this quickly dissolved upon his death and Babylon spent long periods under Assyrian, Kassite and Elamite domination. Babylon again became the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 to 539 BC which was founded by Chaldeans and whose last king was an Assyrian. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. After the fall of Babylon it came under the rules of the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Roman and Sassanid empires.
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LES MALHEURS / DE PYRAME ET THYSBE / DANS LEURS AMOURS. (...
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Babylon
- Cadaver
- Clothing
- Conversation
- Cupola
- Morus (plant)
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- Date:
- 18th century
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Charles Le Brun
Entrée d'Alexandre dans Babylone
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Babylon
- Chariot
- Classical Greece
- Elephant
- Goldsmith
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- René-Antoine Houasse
NABUCHODONOSOR ET SEMIRAMIS FAISANT ELEVER LES JARDINS DE...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- François-Léon Benouville
Esther à l'Odalisque ; Esther (autre titre)
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Babylon
- Domestic worker
- Esther
- Musical instrument
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Ludovico Carracci
Sémiramis à qui un guerrier vient annoncer la révolte de ...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Babylon
- Child
- Domestic worker
- Palace
- Semiramis
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 16th century
- 17th century
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Esther s'agenouillant devant Assuérus
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Babylon
- City
- Domestic worker
- Esther
- Sceptre
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Edgar Degas
SEMIRAMIS CONSTRUISANT BABYLONE, ETUDE D'ENSEMBLE
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Le Festin de Balthazar
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Babylon
- Man
- Serviceman
- Woman
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Cyrus s'empare de Babylone (22ème épisode)
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Babylon
- Cyrus the Great
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Field(s):
- Ceramic
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- Designation:
- plat (rond, historié) | décor mythologique
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Field(s):
- Ironwork
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- Designation:
- coffret ; écritoire ; couvercle
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Babylon
- Horse
- Man
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Doré
- Hector Giacomelli
La Sainte Bible
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- Field(s):
- Printing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Angel
- Architecture
- Babylon
- Banquet (disambiguation)
- Bird
- Child
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- Date:
- 19th century
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