A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians

Usage examples of ziggurat.

Lady Inula had returned to her house, Relkin Orphanboy of Quosh glimpsed the top of the great ziggurat of the city of Ourdh for the first time.

And here was Saladin, his face disfigured like one of the clay masks the priests in Kish would don before they climbed the ziggurat to the gods, his fifteen-year-old body disintegrating before his own eyes, dying in the sands for nothing.

It much resembled the ziggurats of Babylonia, in the respect that a steep railless ramp wound from base to top in seven decreasing spirals.

Far off in the blue distance, heat-hazed so that it appeared to be a dreamy mirage on the horizon, was the city of Belshazzar the Great, its thick stone walls overleaped by its many ziggurats and palatial towers.

A few forgot the warnings that the western ziggurat could not support significant weight and landed on its jutting steps, causing the structure to shudder and chunks of plasterboard sprayed with decorative pseudo-stone to plummet down.

We passed many temples of the lesser gods, and then the great ziggurat of Shamash, with the solar disk mounted at its apex.

Abdikadir, Eumenes and de Morgan had followed more slowly up the ziggurat.

Majesty as he descended the ziggurat, smiling and relaxed, bringing his Dukes and Barons with him to receive tithes at the retaining wall, Pallas had to admit that he knew everything there was to know about making a star entrance.

From a central loggia we had a fine view of what the Babylonians call a ziggurat, or high place.

Far off in the blue distance, heat-hazed so that it appeared to be a dreamy mirage on the horizon, was the city of Belshazzar the Great, its thick stone walls overleaped by its many ziggurats and palatial towers.

Marduk mounted the ziggurat to stand upon its flattened apex so that the gathered worshipers might look upon him.

Babylon, the Babylon of kings and high lords, of perfumed palaces and shining white ziggurats dedicated to Bel-Marduk, to Ia, and to Ishtar.

There, they had proceeded, chanting the song of Enlil and Ninlil, to come at length to a corridor among ziggurats atop which lion-bodied spirits with the heads of men and women appeared, to come in with the choruses and with intonements of blessing.

Mylar balloons in the shapes of winged lions, winged bulls, and ziggurats bob over the throng, their strings clutched by hands still sticky from the free ice cream provided by the Church of Elish.

Some of the ziggurats looked as if they could support a fair amount of weight.