The Ishtar Gate: an offer to the Queen of Heaven
Channel: CREAR Art and Culture
Date: 2021-03-29

The Ishtar Gate, built approximately 575 BC, the main entrance into Babylon, was considered as one of the seven wonders of the world, and testifies to the great feats and luxurious materials which adorned Babylon.

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Images Featured:
The Ishtar Gate (c. 575 BC), Pergamon Museum.

Ishtar Gate at Pergamon Museum, Berlin (Image Credits: Radomir Vrbovsky).
City model of Aj-ibur-shapu (the main procession street).
Details of the Ishtar Gate on the Pergamon Museum.
Akkadian cylindrical seal depicting the goddess Inanna/Ishtar and her sukkal Ninshubur (c. 2334-2154 BC), Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
Land grant to Ḫunnubat-Nanaya Kudurru (1186-1172 BC), Louvre Museum.
Relief of a Lion on the Ishtar Gate, Pergamon Museum.