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Photograph taken by Gertrude Bell in Iraq, March 1911

Description

View from ruins of Ziggurat - Tower of the Ezida, the tower of the god Nebo in Borsippa (a ziggurat or Mesopotamian tower temple). Once thought to be the Tower of Babel, until the discovery of Esagila, the great temple of Morduh in Babylon in the late nineteenth century. Mosque in distance to right of photograph

Reference code
GB/3/1/17/1/36
Creator
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
Creation Date
-
Photograph Album Caption by Gertrude Bell
View from the Tower of Babel looking north, Birs Nimroud
Former reference
Q_036
Photograph album
Location
Coordinates

32.391937, 44.341188

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IIIF Manifest
https://collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/iiif/info/p21051coll153/4274/manifest.json