Historical place profile
Babylon
Babylon was a major Mesopotamian city and imperial centre whose historical remains, biblical role and later symbolic reception must be kept distinct.
Historical layers
- Old Babylonian city and Hammurabi
- Neo-Babylonian imperial capital
- Judahite exile
- Persian and Hellenistic phases
- Biblical and Christian symbolic reception
Church-history significance
The exile forms a major stage of salvation history. New Testament and patristic uses of “Babylon” can be historical, typological or symbolic and should not be merged automatically with the archaeological city.
Primary and geographic sources
- Pleiades place 893951
- Kings, Chronicles, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Daniel
- Cuneiform royal inscriptions and excavation records
Map semantics
The coordinate at 32.53729695, 44.42497815 is a representative_point_not_boundary. It anchors the place for research and does not assert one unchanging urban, political or ecclesiastical boundary across all periods.
Catalogue record
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:893951
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:893951
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement, urban
- Precision
- precise
- Provenance
- Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 91 F5 Babylon