This piece evokes ancient architecture, in particular the ziggurat of the Assyrians.
The ziggurat occupies the center, surrounded by a city wall.
West Sacramento has a giant ziggurat on the river.
In its heyday, the city was enclosed by a wall some 8km in circumference, enclosing at one corner a citadel that contained a ziggurat , temples, and palaces.
Shellfire damaged the brickwork of the ziggurat at Ur, which was constructed in 2100 B.C.
Just beyond the bridge is a little park, too rocky to develop, that rises in the middle to a rounded granite ziggurat .
Opposite the ziggurat of technology was a single unmade cot.
The Tower of Babel, the great ziggurat beside Babylon's temple of Marduk, dates to this era.
He guided Tennyson and Clara to a stepped display that looked rather like Tennysons' model of a ziggurat from History class.
I'm doing an ambient-metal installation in a Greek art gallery and writing about ziggurats .