Biblical Tower of Babel: 2 diagram requests

Chicago103 · #1 Posted **Mar 31, 2006, 1:46 AM**

There is a rendering of the Tower of Babel on our site found here: http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=9362
However as it states this is the historical tower, biblical version is an earlier one. Also artistic renderings can be found on the wikipedia page.

If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel and scroll down to the section about the height of the tower it gives two sources for the height of the tower. One is 212 meters, 695 feet tall, a pretty reasonable height but still pretty tall for an ancient structure. The second source gives the insane figure of 2,484 meters, 8,150 feet tall, that would be taller than any other structure we have drawn including the Mile High Tower. I am hoping someone is willing to do one or preferably both of these, they can be listed as a "fantasy" structure I suppose.

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Official sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
Unofficial sources:

Building Name: Tower of Babel
City: Babylon
Country: Iraq
Architect: Nimrod
Interesting Facts/Records (in own words): Narrative found in Genesis 11:1 and according to it was built by a united human race in order to make a name for themselves. Construction on the tower ceased when God confused the language of the builders. The tower is often artistically depicted as having a spiralling ramp going up it, presumably as a ramp for builders to move materials up, such as was the case with the great pyramids in Egypt.

Heights--
- roof: 212 meters, 695 feet and/or 2,484 meters, 8,150 feet

Current Building Status: Fantasy

Construction Dates--
- finished: 2700 B.C.

Structure Type(s):proto-tower
Building Use(s): religious
Building Style(s):spiralling tower
Building Materials:earth, masonry
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SapphireBlueEyes · #2 Posted **Mar 31, 2006, 4:06 AM**

Great idea dude!! I'd love to see those on the diagram!!

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Originally Posted by Chicago103

There is a rendering of the Tower of Babel on our site found here: http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=9362
However as it states this is the historical tower, biblical version is an earlier one. Also artistic renderings can be found on the wikipedia page.

If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel and scroll down to the section about the height of the tower it gives two sources for the height of the tower. One is 212 meters, 695 feet tall, a pretty reasonable height but still pretty tall for an ancient structure. The second source gives the insane figure of 2,484 meters, 8,150 feet tall, that would be taller than any other structure we have drawn including the Mile High Tower. I am hoping someone is willing to do one or preferably both of these, they can be listed as a "fantasy" structure I suppose.

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Official sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
Unofficial sources:

Building Name: Tower of Babel
City: Babylon
Country: Iraq
Architect: Nimrod
Interesting Facts/Records (in own words): Narrative found in Genesis 11:1 and according to it was built by a united human race in order to make a name for themselves. Construction on the tower ceased when God confused the language of the builders. The tower is often artistically depicted as having a spiralling ramp going up it, presumably as a ramp for builders to move materials up, such as was the case with the great pyramids in Egypt.

Heights--
- roof: 212 meters, 695 feet and/or 2,484 meters, 8,150 feet

Current Building Status: Fantasy

Construction Dates--
- finished: 2700 B.C.

Structure Type(s):proto-tower
Building Use(s): religious
Building Style(s):spiralling tower
Building Materials:earth, masonry
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CGII · #3 Posted **Mar 31, 2006, 1:52 PM**

Here: A challenge for the more experienced diagrammers.

Tim B · #4 Posted **Mar 31, 2006, 10:21 PM**

no thanks, i am an atheist

LMich · #5 Posted **Apr 1, 2006, 12:06 AM**

You've drawn churches, haven't you? It shouldn't matter what the structure is.

Tim B · #6 Posted **Apr 1, 2006, 8:06 AM**

@lmich
damn that's true

Bergenser · #7 Posted **Apr 3, 2006, 2:40 PM**

I would love to see the biggest one in the diagram...

Chicago103 · #8 Posted **Apr 4, 2006, 9:25 PM**

A soaring tower with a spiral ramp going up it is all you really need to do here, and just do two separate renderings of it for the two different heights.

Bergenser · #9 Posted **Apr 7, 2006, 11:52 AM**

can you use this form for posting and drawing the biblical tower of Babylon as fantasy?

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Official sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
Unofficial sources:

Building Name: Tower of Babel
City: Babylon
Country: Iraq
Architect: Nimrod
Interesting Facts/Records (in own words): Narrative found in Genesis 11:1 and according to it was built by a united human race in order to make a name for themselves. Construction on the tower ceased when God confused the language of the builders. The tower is often artistically depicted as having a spiralling ramp going up it, presumably as a ramp for builders to move materials up, such as was the case with the great pyramids in Egypt.

Heights--
- roof: 212 meters, 695 feet and/or 2,484 meters, 8,150 feet

Current Building Status: Fantasy

Construction Dates--
- finished: 2700 B.C.

Structure Type(s):proto-tower
Building Use(s): religious
Building Style(s):spiralling tower
Building Materials:earth, masonry
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Bergenser · #10 Posted **Apr 7, 2006, 12:42 PM**

I have made a drawing of the biblical tower of Babel:

its a bad dawing and I hope someone will join me to draw the building...

Bergenser · #11 Posted **Apr 7, 2006, 12:46 PM**

when the building has get old:

Chicago103 · #12 Posted **Apr 7, 2006, 5:32 PM**

That is actually a good start, and when you have a more finalized drawing all you have to do is scale it accordingly to the two different heights. You can call the two different renderings the Biblical Tower of Babel (Baruch) and Biblical Tower of Babel (Jubilees) according to their respective sources for height.

Here are some updated forms I made for the two different renderings.

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Official sources: Genesis 11, Third Apocalypse of Baruch (height)
Unofficial sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

Building Name: Biblical Tower of Babel (Baruch)
City: Babylon
Country: Iraq
Architect: Nimrod
Interesting Facts/Records (in own words): Narrative found in Genesis 11:1 and according to it was built by a united human race in order to make a name for themselves. Construction on the tower ceased when God confused the language of the builders. The tower is often artistically depicted as having a spiralling ramp going up it, presumably as a ramp for builders to move materials up, such as was the case with the great pyramids in Egypt. At the height listed in the Third Apocalypse of Baruch the tower would be the tallest structure built in human history until the construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1889.

Heights--
- roof: 212 meters, 695 feet

Current Building Status: Fantasy

Construction Dates--
- finished: 2700 B.C.

Structure Type(s):proto-tower
Building Use(s): religious
Building Style(s):spiralling tower
Building Materials:earth, masonry
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Official sources: Genesis 11, Book of Jubilees (height)
Unofficial sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

Building Name: Biblical Tower of Babel (Jubilees)
City: Babylon
Country: Iraq
Architect: Nimrod
Interesting Facts/Records (in own words): Narrative found in Genesis 11:1 and according to it was built by a united human race in order to make a name for themselves. Construction on the tower ceased when God confused the language of the builders. The tower is often artistically depicted as having a spiralling ramp going up it, presumably as a ramp for builders to move materials up, such as was the case with the great pyramids in Egypt. At the height listed in the Book of Jubilees the tower would be four times taller than any structure built in human history.

Heights--
- roof: 2,484 meters, 8,150 feet

Current Building Status: Fantasy

Construction Dates--
- finished: 2700 B.C.

Structure Type(s):proto-tower
Building Use(s): religious
Building Style(s):spiralling tower
Building Materials:earth, masonry
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Bergenser · #13 Posted **Apr 8, 2006, 3:46 PM**

Here are my two different vesions

I`ll hope to see several drawings of both of them

Chicago103 · #14 Posted **Apr 9, 2006, 7:06 AM**

OMG, one just completly dwarfs the other!!!!! I guess it makes sense since one is nearly 12 times taller than the other and using my fingers I actually determined that one rendering is about 12 times talller than the other in addition to also being 12 times wider. I also like the way it looks alot, you have just the right texture and look to it, I cant wait to see both of them in the diagrams.