Hurdle house

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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 .

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