Hard-Kurigalzu

Hard-Kurigalzu is a site of Mésopotamie, (`Aqar Quf, 30 km in the west of Baghdad), capital of the king kassite of Babylon Kurigalzu (I or II), founded towards 1400 av. J. - C.

The religious center of Hard-Kurigalzu is formed by a very ruined ziggourat but whose heart remained (57 m in height). Three temples were found with its feet. This unit, built in the traditional forms of Mésopotamie (although the Kassites introduced their own divinities), is remarkable by the extent of the design. The palate, incompletely released, introduced newer forms. The various bodies of building, organized traditionally around a central big space, extend on more than 300 m on sides (no palate had reached such a width). The vault seems to be used systematically to cover the rooms of the first level (first use on ranges reaching 7 m). The extent of the work, the great number of units, the existence of a gantry in masonry, the long processions of characters painted on the walls forms a completely new unit which does not seem to have had posterity.

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