ziggurat

Although, in part, abstract, Joe Tilson's dazzling 1964 acrylic-painted wood construction Ziggurat II, acquired by the trust in 2013, is permeated with significance and relates to Pop Art, resembling a stacked toy.

The Tower of Babel looked like the ziggurat, a temple tower of the Babylonians.

But these are as much abstract as symbolic, as indeed is the ziggurat, a favourite motif of Tilson's from the '60s onwards.

While you may be imagining a massive skyscraper in a Gulf nation or another wonder of the modern era, the building in question is in fact the great Ziggurat of Ur, begun by King Ur-Nammu and completed by King Shulgi, during the Third Dynasty of Ur in the 21st century BCE.

The delegation was introduced to the Ziggurat of Ur, a historical site dating back to the year 2112 BC.

The snow has ended and so Spiota (Stokesley Pride in our town Association) has replaced the ziggurat and the tubs with winter shrubs and flowering plants.

NYT Syndicate Suppose that a ramp leading to the top of a ziggurat wall is 56 cubits long, and the vertical height of the ziggurat is 45 cubits.

Accor was the first hotel group to venture into the tourism business in Iran following the nuclear deal, when it signed a contract in September 2015 with local company Aria Ziggurat to manage two hotels.

All accommodations feature striking, custom-designed ziggurat ceilings with variable lighting, and when the sun sets, lighting can be adjusted to suit the mood.

Its towering ziggurat, or step pyramid, has been bulldozed.The militants' fanaticism devastated one of the Middle East's most important archaeological sites.

And the militants bulldozed Nimrud's ziggurat, the mud-brick base of a once-soaring ancient temple, reducing it to a nondescript pile of dirt.

Brenda Smith Myles is a consultant with the Ziggurat Group, a national professional development organization specializing in autism spectrum disorders and their treatment.