Mesopotamian Ziggurat Tower Rising Above the Plain at Dusk

A huge stepped mud-brick ziggurat of seven terraces with a ramped stair and a summit temple rises above a plain with date palms under a sunset sky in layered wax paint.

Prompt

Stack short dense wax-and-oil paint strata with flattened deposits, dry scuffs and broad scraped windows that expose the colours beneath; a matte body with small local translucent variations and no glossy fluid blending. The Tower of Babel as a vast stepped ziggurat rising from a plain beside the Euphrates in the evening: a huge mud-brick tower of seven receding terraces with a ramped stair climbing the front face, a small temple on the summit, date palms and tiny scattered trees on the plain, a sky of heavy cloud lit from below, seen from a low angle at the base. Light: the last sun low behind the tower as a scraped window of molten orange and rose throwing a rim along every terrace edge while the brick faces fall into deep umber, violet and indigo strata, the upper clouds in slate and gold; palette of umber, ochre, violet, indigo, orange and rose; heavy, matte, monumental. Wide 16:9 frame. A dignified, respectful depiction following Mesopotamian iconography; no readable cuneiform, inscriptions, letters or logos anywhere, only plain decorative bands.