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    The Waiting Room: At the very top of those stairs—which the maintenance team is currently restoring—there would have been a small shrine. This wasn't a place for public worship, but a "waiting room" where the deity (in Ur's case, the moon god Nanna) was believed to dwell when visiting the city.

    #Ur
    #archaeology
    #Akkadian
    #meru
    #history

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    The Waiting Room: At the very top of those stairs—which the maintenance team is currently restoring—there would have been a small shrine. This wasn't a place for public worship, but a "waiting room" where the deity (in Ur's case, the moon god Nanna) was believed to dwell when visiting the city.

    #Ur
    #archaeology
    #Akkadian
    #meru
    #history

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    The Waiting Room: At the very top of those stairs—which the maintenance team is currently restoring—there would have been a small shrine. This wasn't a place for public worship, but a "waiting room" where the deity (in Ur's case, the moon god Nanna) was believed to dwell when visiting the city.

    #Ur
    #archaeology
    #Akkadian
    #meru
    #history

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    The Waiting Room: At the very top of those stairs—which the maintenance team is currently restoring—there would have been a small shrine. This wasn't a place for public worship, but a "waiting room" where the deity (in Ur's case, the moon god Nanna) was believed to dwell when visiting the city.

    #Ur
    #archaeology
    #Akkadian
    #meru
    #history

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    The Waiting Room: At the very top of those stairs—which the maintenance team is currently restoring—there would have been a small shrine. This wasn't a place for public worship, but a "waiting room" where the deity (in Ur's case, the moon god Nanna) was believed to dwell when visiting the city.

    #Ur
    #archaeology
    #Akkadian
    #meru
    #history

  6. In the cosmology of ancient #Mesopotamia, a ziggurat like the one in Ur temple, wasn't just a building; it was a meru, a cosmic mountain that served as a physical bridge between the earthly realm and the divine.

    The term "Ziggurat" itself comes from the Akkadian ziqqurratu, meaning "built on a high area" or "to rise high," signifying its role as a literal staircase for the gods to descend to earth and for priests to ascend toward the heavens.

    #Ur
    #archaeology
    #Akkadian
    #meru
    #history

  7. In the cosmology of ancient #Mesopotamia, a ziggurat like the one in Ur temple, wasn't just a building; it was a meru, a cosmic mountain that served as a physical bridge between the earthly realm and the divine.

    The term "Ziggurat" itself comes from the Akkadian ziqqurratu, meaning "built on a high area" or "to rise high," signifying its role as a literal staircase for the gods to descend to earth and for priests to ascend toward the heavens.

    #Ur
    #archaeology
    #Akkadian
    #meru
    #history

  8. In the cosmology of ancient #Mesopotamia, a ziggurat like the one in Ur temple, wasn't just a building; it was a meru, a cosmic mountain that served as a physical bridge between the earthly realm and the divine.

    The term "Ziggurat" itself comes from the Akkadian ziqqurratu, meaning "built on a high area" or "to rise high," signifying its role as a literal staircase for the gods to descend to earth and for priests to ascend toward the heavens.

    #Ur
    #archaeology
    #Akkadian
    #meru
    #history

  9. In the cosmology of ancient #Mesopotamia, a ziggurat like the one in Ur temple, wasn't just a building; it was a meru, a cosmic mountain that served as a physical bridge between the earthly realm and the divine.

    The term "Ziggurat" itself comes from the Akkadian ziqqurratu, meaning "built on a high area" or "to rise high," signifying its role as a literal staircase for the gods to descend to earth and for priests to ascend toward the heavens.

    #Ur
    #archaeology
    #Akkadian
    #meru
    #history

  10. In the cosmology of ancient #Mesopotamia, a ziggurat like the one in Ur temple, wasn't just a building; it was a meru, a cosmic mountain that served as a physical bridge between the earthly realm and the divine.

    The term "Ziggurat" itself comes from the Akkadian ziqqurratu, meaning "built on a high area" or "to rise high," signifying its role as a literal staircase for the gods to descend to earth and for priests to ascend toward the heavens.

    #Ur
    #archaeology
    #Akkadian
    #meru
    #history