Tower of Babylon Stele in 3D photogrammetry

3D Model

Black stone stele in two fragments with the only known original side illustration of the Tower in Babylon and the only picture of the king Nebuchadnezzar II found in Mesopotamia. The tower or ziggurat was 90 x 90 m with a height also of 90 m. The stele was discovered in Babylon in the early 1990s, for 28 years in the Schøyen Collection Oslo, and since December 2023 back in Iraq and the Iraq Museum Baghdad. The photogrammetry was produced by Olof Pedersén in October 2023 as documentation before the stele was given to Iraq.

Publication: Olof Pedersén. The Tower of Babylon Stele found in Babylon. Iraq 85, 2023.

Deposit of source material at Zenodo as Open Access https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10374395