The Architecture of the Temples with the Tripartite Style in Mesopotamia from the Sixth Millennium Until the End of the Second Millennium BC

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 25, 2025
Pages
71-102

Abstract

The research for deals with the issue of the emergence of temples with Triple-Division style in Mesopotamia as one of the forms of architecture associated primarily with religious beliefs, despite the lack of information about the origins of its appearance. The results of the archaeological excavation proved that the known division dates back to the seventh and sixth millennium BC., based on the architectural plans discovered for residential houses, some of which contain chapels of worship (chapels) in northern and central Mesopotamia, it also includes the study of same models from the levant, Anatolia and Elam. as they allocated one of the wings (right or left) to perform worship in a triangular formation, which includes several rooms perpendicular to each other by means of intervening entrances, and this is what the research will investigate, while standing on the stages that this style went through and its continuity in the history of architecture in Mesopotamia, and mentioned the most important types of this style.

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