Palace of Zimri-Lim

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Archaeological site of the palace in Mari

The palace of Zimri-Lim is an old Babylonian monumental building in Mari , which was built during the conquest of Mari by Hammurabi in the middle of the 18th century BC. Was destroyed. This is just the latest construction phase of a building that was previously used by Šamši-Adad I and his son Jasmach-Addu and before that by other members of the Lim dynasty .

The palace became known primarily because of its size and its good state of preservation, but also because of its famous finds such as the clay tablet archives , the water-bubbling goddess and the wall paintings in the palm courtyard . The palace is divided into several functional areas, which in turn are strictly separated from each other and are often only accessible via long corridors. The control point is a central courtyard, to which administration and storage rooms are connected. The king's residence and harem are in the area of ​​a second courtyard. A detailed functional analysis of the individual palace areas is not possible, however, as their inventory was distributed over the entire palace during the devastation during the conquest by Hammurabi.

In the southeast corner of the palace was a temple, which, however, had already been profaned before the palace was destroyed. The complex consisted of several rooms grouped around a courtyard in the manner of a hurdle house, whereby the facade of the cella was provided with the pillar niche decoration typical of temples in Mesopotamia .

literature

  • André Parrot : Le palais. ( Mission archéologique de Mari Vol. 2, 1-3). Geuthner, Paris 1958–1959.
  • Jena Margueron: Quelques remarques concernant les archives retrouvées dans le palais de Mari. In: Klaas R. Veenhof (Ed.): Cuneiform Archives and Libraries (= Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologische Instituut te Istanbul vol. 57). Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologische Instituut te Istanbul, Istanbul 1986, ISBN 90-6258-057-2 , pp. 141–152.
  • Agnès Spycket: Mari B - Archeology. In: Dietz-Otto Edzard (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie and Near Eastern Archeology . Volume 7: Libanukšabaš - Medicine. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1987-1990, ISBN 3-11-010437-7 , pp. 399-401.
  • Jean-Marie Durand: Les documents épistolaires du palais de Mari (= Littératures anciennes du Proche-Orient, vol. 16). Volume 1. Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf 1997, ISBN 2-204-05685-5 .