hopePlate 540 · Nasiriyah, Iraq

Ziggurat of Ur

A mud-brick mountain for a moon god, still the shape of the first cities.

c. 2100 BCE · King Ur-Nammu · Middle East

The chamber score

Taqsim in Maqam Rast

Munir Bashir · Iraqi oud

The maqam was invented near these ziggurats.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The best-preserved Sumerian ziggurat, a foundation of monumental architecture.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Ziggurat of Ur through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

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Shift the feeling

What if Ziggurat of Ur was rebuilt as something else?

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One question. Stay in the room.