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Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Ishtar gate. The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon (in the area of present-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq). It was constructed c. 569 BC [1] by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the city. It was part of a grand walled processional way leading into the city.
The main exhibits are the Pergamon Altar from the 2nd century BC, with a 113-metre (371 ft) long sculptural frieze depicting the struggle of the gods and the giants, and the Gate of Miletus from Roman antiquity. As Germany was divided following the Second World War, so was the collection.
Mentioned in numerous contemporary sources, including the inscription of the Ishtar Gate, which he built. [49] Also called Nebuchadrezzar (Akkadian: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur). Ez. 26:7, Dn. 1:1, 2 Kgs. 24:1: Nebuzaradan: Babylonian official fl. c. 587: Mentioned in a prism in Istanbul (No. 7834), found in Babylon where he is listed as the "chief ...
The famous Ishtar Gate, part of which is now reconstructed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, was the main entrance into Babylon, built in about 575 BC by Nebuchadnezzar II, the king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who exiled the Jews; the empire lasted from 626 BC to 539 BC. The walls surrounding the entrance way are decorated with rows of large ...
Glazed tile images from the Ishtar Gate of Babylon; Statues from ancient antiquity until the end of the Roman Era, from Aphrodisias, Ephesus and Miletus; Statue of an Ephebos; Statue of Apollo Citharoedus from Miletus; Parts of statues from the Temple of Zeus found at Bergama
In the process the 2,500-year-old brick pavement to the Ishtar Gate was smashed by tanks and the gate itself damaged. The archaeology-rich subsoil was bulldozed to fill sandbags, and large areas covered in compacted gravel for helipads and car parks. Babylon is being rendered archaeologically barren".
The tablets were excavated from Babylon during 1899–1917 by Robert Koldewey and were stored in a barrel-vaulted underground building consisting of rows of rooms near the Ishtar Gate. Translation [ edit ]
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