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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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 is "the Queen of...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Gatehouse (redirect from Gate-house)
    entrance to a castle or town. Famous early examples of such gates are those such as the Ishtar Gate in Babylon. Over time, they evolved into very complicated...
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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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    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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    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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  • bow and arrow, 645–635 BC IQD 10 (1992) Blue-green Saddam Hussein and Ishtar gate Lamassu, Assyrian carving of a winged bull IQD 25 (1990) Green Horses...
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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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  • Tarquinius Priscus as the sixth King of Rome (traditional date). 575 BC—The Ishtar Gate and throne room wall are built in the city of Babylon. 575 BC—Battle...
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    lion, which used to roam in the region.[citation needed] It represents Ishtar, goddess of fertility, love, and war.[citation needed] The lion featured...
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    and sacrificed to the god Baal. An aurochs is depicted on Babylon's Ishtar Gate, constructed in the 6th century BC. Petroglyphs depicting aurochs found...
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    Nineveh (redirect from Adad Gate)
    Nineveh becomes known as Ishtar temple, re-dedicated to the Semite goddess Ishtar, in the form of Ishtar of Nineveh. Ishtar of Nineveh was conflated with...
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  • New Orleans and Chernobyl. In 2004, Bolster edited and published The Ishtar Gate, featuring the poetry of Dutch-Canadian poet Diana Brebner. Bolster also...
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