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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...
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  • Look up Ishtar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ishtar is a Mesopotamian deity. Ishtar may also refer to: Ishtar Gate, a gate to the inner city of ancient...
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    centre through renovations to the city's Processional Street and the Ishtar Gate. As most of Nebuchadnezzar's inscriptions deal with his building projects...
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    pieces the museum displays are: The Pergamon Altar The Market Gate of Miletus The Ishtar Gate and the Processional Way, Babylon The Mshatta Facade The Meissner...
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    and the construction of the Ishtar Gate—the most prominent of eight gates around Babylon. A reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate is located in the Pergamon...
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    Inanna (redirect from Ishtar)
    Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯). Her primary title was "the Queen of...
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  • Gates of Ishtar is a Swedish melodic death metal band. Gates of Ishtar was formed in late 1992 under the name Disrupt, by Mikael Sandorf (vocals), Andreas...
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    snake-like tongue, and a crest. The mušḫuššu most famously appears on the Ishtar Gate of the city of Babylon, dating to the sixth century BCE. The form mušḫuššu...
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    monuments and building works throughout Mesopotamia, such as Babylon's Ishtar Gate and Processional Street. He is known to have completely renovated at...
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  • India Gate, the All India War Memorial, a memorial located on the Rajpath, the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of New Delhi, India Ishtar Gate, the...
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    elegant gate to a meadow path Ishtar Gate is the oldest city gate in existence Wringin Lawang, a 14th-century Majapahit split gate, called "Candi bentar", in...
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  • 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...
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    Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets. These tablets were excavated near the Ishtar Gate in Babylon and have been dated to c. 592 BCE. Written in cuneiform, they...
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    Short visual history of architectural styles (from left to right): the Ishtar Gate (Mesopotamian); the Temple of Isis from Philae (Ancient Egyptian); the...
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    1920 Detail of Nebuchadnezzar II's Building Inscription plaque of the Ishtar Gate, from Babylon Artist's impression of a hall in an Assyrian palace from...
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    way from the Ishtar Gate to the temple of Marduk. A large group of such figures is part of the Processional Way leading to the Ishtar Gate, a centrepiece...
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    and gates of Aurangabad in Aurangabad (Maharashtra) Walled city of Kota in Kota (Rajasthan) Teen Darwaza in Bhadra Fort, Ahmedabad Iraq: Ishtar Gate, Hillah...
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  • Ishtar is a 1987 American adventure-comedy film written and directed by Elaine May, and produced by Warren Beatty, who co-stars opposite Dustin Hoffman...
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    and neck of a snake, the forelegs of a lion, and the hind-legs of a bird. Here it is shown as it appears in the Ishtar Gate from the city of Babylon....
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    bellowing voice". In the film Alexander (2004), lamassu are seen at the Ishtar Gate in Babylon. In the Disney film Aladdin (1992), a gold lamassu can be...
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    by several Iraqi institutions such as the Iraqi Football Association. Ishtar Gate Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal Lion of Basrah Lion of Babylon Lion of Judah...
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    Valentinian II Statue of Alexander the Great Puzur Ishtar, governor of Mari Glazed brick panel from way to Ishtar Gate Porphyry sarcophagi of Byzantine emperors...
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    Babylonian pantheon as follows: Jupiter with Marduk, Venus with the goddess Ishtar, Saturn with Ninurta (Ninib), Mercury with Nabu (Nebo), Mars with Nergal...
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  • bow and arrow, 645–635 BC ID 10 (1992) Blue-green Saddam Hussein and Ishtar gate Lamassu, Assyrian carving of a winged bull ID 25 (1990) Green Horses...
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    York. It was one of many that lined the Processional Way north of the Ishtar Gate. It was excavated by R. Koldewey in 1902, and at the Staatliche Museen...
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    Assyrian ornaments and patterns, illustrated in a book from 1920 The famous Ishtar Gate, part of which is now reconstructed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin...
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    also created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the still-surviving Ishtar Gate as architectural embellishments of its capital at Babylon. Akkad was...
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  • gods. Mušḫuššu A creature from ancient Mesopotamian mythology found on Ishtar Gate. A mythological hybrid, it is a scaly dragon with hind legs resembling...
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    at Babylon revealed the foundations of the ziggurat Marduk, and the Ishtar Gate; he also developed several modern archaeological techniques including...
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    remains of paint can usually be discovered through chemical means. The Ishtar Gate of Babylon, now in Berlin, has low reliefs of large animals formed from...
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