{"id":13292,"date":"2022-11-04T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=13292"},"modified":"2022-11-03T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T15:11:18","slug":"markets-and-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2022\/11\/markets-and-temples\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets and Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a period of radio silence here, we’re back. We re-opened the website a couple of weeks ago, although we did it quietly to avoid being swamped by orders (which sort of worked).<\/p>\n

We’ve also been working on some new releases, as we’ve been a bit sluggish on that front for a while. We have a number lined up across several ranges for the coming weeks, starting today with a pair of 2mm ancient structures.<\/p>\n

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The first is another addition to our range of Roman architecture – it’s a enclosed forum (marketplace) with a small basilica at one end and galleried walls around the outside. Most decent sized towns would have at least one.<\/p>\n

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The second release is much, much older at well over 4000 years. The Ziggurat of Ur is a large, iconic temple built by the Sumerian King Ur-Nammu in the 21st century BC near Nasariyah in present-day Iraq. The structure is over 60m wide and 30m high, built in the form of a stepped pyramid. Over the years the temple deteriorated and 1500 years later it was restored by King Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Once again time took its toll, and the Ziggurat was little more than a solid mass of mud bricks. In the latter part of the 20th century the lower facade and main staircase were restored by Saddam Hussein, although the upper levels remain a pile of rubble.<\/p>\n

Our version is obviously slightly conjectural, since no-one knows exactly what the upper levels looked like originally (even King Nabonidus’ rebuild was apparently rather different from the original form). But we’ve gone with a reconstruction that hopefully isn’t too far from what King Ur-Nammu saw all those centuries ago.<\/p>\n

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SSS-8193<\/a> – Roman Forum – \u00a33.50
\nSSS-8194<\/a> – Ziggurat of Ur – \u00a33.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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