How did people construct and maintain temples in Mesopotamia?
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Assur Because of a lack of timber and stone, most buildings in Mesopotamia were made from mud bricks held together with plaited layers of reeds. In Ur mud bricks were bound together with asphalt-like bitumen.
The ziggurat was built to honor the main god of the city. The tradition of building a ziggurat was started by the Sumerians, but other civilizations of Mesopotamia such as the Akkadians, the Babylonians, and the Assyrians also built ziggurats.The ziggurats began as a platform (usually oval, rectangular or square), the ziggurat was a mastaba-like structure with a flat top. The sun-baked bricks made up the core of the ziggurat with facings of fired bricks on the outside. Each step was slightly smaller than the step below it.
Temples in ancient mesopotamia, better known as community temples, were basically operated by priests and priestesses.
Explanation:
- Ziggurats and temples in ancient mesopotamia.
- Ziggurats are as emblematic of mesopotamia as the great pyramids are of ancient egypt.
- These ancient stepped buildings were created to be home to the patron god or goddess of the city.
- As religion was central to mesopotamian life, ziggurat was the heart of a city.
- The top of the building was flat and it was a shrine or temple to the god, only priests could go.
- The entire building was made of sun-dried bricks in all the interior areas with glazed fire-dried bricks facing outward.
- The facing bricks on each successive tier were glazed a different color.
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