Hurdle house
As hurdle House (also injunktives courtyard house ) refers to a typical design in Babylonia .
Originally, it was a hurdle within which a house stood. Over time, these buildings developed into groups of rooms that were grouped around a rectangular inner courtyard . At the end of their development they differed genetically, but not in terms of their external shape , from the courtyard house , which was also widespread , in which the courtyard is part of the original concept of the building and is not a mere remnant of filling the open spaces of the hurdle with rooms.
From the early second millennium BC Most houses of this type have at least one cult room .
literature
- Ernst Heinrich : Buildings in Old Sumerian visual art . 1957, pp. 95-97.
- Mirko Novák : A typology of houses in Nuzi . In: Baghdader Mitteilungen 25, 1994, p. 400.