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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 Pergamon Museum (‹See Tfd› German: Pergamonmuseum; pronounced [ˈpɛʁ.ɡa.mɔn.muˌzeː.ʊm] ⓘ) is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. It was built from 1910 to 1930 by order of Emperor Wilhelm II and according to plans by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann in Stripped Classicism style. [ 1 ]
Layard conducted excavations at Nineveh, the ancient capital of the Neo-assyrian Empire, while Koldewey uncovered the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, one of the city's most decorated structures. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] While Layard is most known for his discoveries at Nineveh he also published a book in 1849, named Nineveh and Its Remains , which introduced the ...
Inanna[ a ] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar[ b ] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯).
Beyond this portal, which Ishtar/Inanna or Nergal encounter, lie seven additional gates, leading to the core of the Underworld. [89] Given the Underworld's reputation as a realm from which escape is challenging, these seven gates are occasionally conceptualized as being embedded within the walls encircling the Underworld. [90]
The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate is a historical novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1961, and in paperback by Lancer Books in 1968. The first trade paperback edition was issued by The Donning Company in 1982. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The book was reissued with a new introduction by Harry Turtledove as a ...
The mušḫuššu most famously appears on the Ishtar Gate of the city of Babylon, dating to the sixth century BCE. The form mušḫuššu is the Akkadian nominative of Sumerian: 𒈲𒍽 MUŠ.ḪUŠ, 'reddish snake', sometimes also translated as 'fierce snake'. [2] One author, [3] possibly following others, translates it as 'splendour serpent ...
The reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum . 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 ...