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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.
Chariots Trampling Enemies and Burning City in Assyrian Relief
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Chariots trampling enemies and burning city in drawing of late 8th century BCE Assyrian relief in Sargon’s palace in Khorsabad, Iraq. One of Sargon’s horse-drawn chariots, its driver holding a whip…

Places:

Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)

Date:

Late 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

War, Cities, Violence, Military, Animals

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Sculpture
Drawing of relief of men in chariot trampling other figures.