Missing Illustration - 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth
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Query: 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth
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A Neo-Babylonian tablet c. 600 BC showed the earth (or at least Babylonia) ringed by water (the World Ocean) as if rising out of it, much as city-temples were depicted rising out of watery chaos to become the first earthly forms (Illustration 9.6).
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“9.6 Babylonia surrounded by a circular river. (H.P. L’Orange,[1] Studies in the Iconography of Cosmic Kingship, 1953: [page number unknown]).
- Greek kosmos surrounded by Okeanos.”
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- ↑ H.P. l’Orange, Studies in the Iconography of Cosmic Kingship (Oslo: 1953).
