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Ishtar Gate and Processional Avenue
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Ishtar Gate and processional avenue, Babylon. This scale model in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin shows the splendor of the city in the days of the prophet—or prophets—whose words are preserved in…

Places:

Babylon, Babylonia (Babylon, Iraq)

Date:

605 BCE–562 BCE

Subjects:

Cities, Animals, Monarchy

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Sculpture, Architecture
Model of temple and long avenue lined with small uniform buildings.
Palace Façade in Assyrian Relief
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Palace façade in Assyrian relief, Khorsabad. This illustration is based on an Assyrian relief from the palace of Sargon II (reigned 722–705 BCE), Khorsabad. The relief shows pillars topped by volute…

Places:

Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)

Date:

Iron Age II, 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Cities, Monarchy

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Line drawing of columned facade.