Babylon On World Map
A unique ancient map of the mesopotamian world this tablet contains both a cuneiform inscription and a unique map of the mesopotamian world.
Babylon on world map. Babylon is shown in the centre the rectangle in the top half of the circle and assyria elam and other places are also named. Babylon is surrounded by two concentric circles that represent the ocean named bitter water or the salt sea it is labeled with babylon assyria and elam. It contains carefully etched images and cuneiform writing. It was home to the famed hanging gardens of babylon.
The remains of the ancient city of babylon are located near the city of hillah in iraq about 40 miles south to baghdad. Babylon was originally a small akkadian town dating from the period of the akkadian empire c. Schematic representation of the babylonian world map the tablet is oriented toward the northeast. Between 1770 to 1670 bc and 612 to 320 bc babylon was the world s largest city and it is estimated that it could have been the first to acquire a population of more than 200 000 inhabitants.
A triangle to the north is described as a region being in darkness. Exact location of babylon and coordinates. When you have eliminated the javascript whatever remains must be an empty page. The babylonian world map does not have a tamtu marratum bitter sea between babylon and the sunrise mountain triangle of the east its a nar marratum a bitter river the shatt al amarah.
It was built along the left and right banks of the euphrates river with steep embankments to contain the river s seasonal floods. Enable javascript to see google maps. The central area is ringed by a circular waterway labelled salt sea. Find local businesses view maps and get driving directions in google maps.
Babylon was the capital city of babylonia a kingdom in ancient mesopotamia between the 18th and 6th centuries bc. The ruins of the medieval city of babylon lie in hillah babil governorate in iraq. The tablet contains a map of the mesopotamian world with babylon in the center. It shows babylon on the euphrates surrounded by a circular landmass with assyria uratu armenia ocean and islands arranged around forming a seven pointed star.
The map is centered on the euphrates flowing from the north top to the south bottom. The babylonian map of the world or imago mundi is a babylonian clay tablet containing a labeled depiction of the known world with a short and partially lost description dated to roughly the 6th century bc neo babylonian or early achaemenid period. At its height the city was one of the most prominent cities of the ancient era.