Friday, April 25, 2008

Berlin, Germany, 11-15 Oct 2006: Pergamon Museum
Processional Way & Ishtar Gate

Lions, Processional WayLions, Processional WayNew Year Feast Day, 200 BC. Ancient Babylonians parade on the Processional Way towards the Ishtar Gate. Fortress walls surround the city, towering on the left and right: a sea of cobalt glazed tiles punctuated every few feet with menacing growling lions. Both were built during Nebuchadnezzar II's reign, c. 600 BC. In the 1930s, German archaeologists at Berlin's Pergamon Museum completed a reconstruction of these structures using tons of fragments excavated in Iraq.
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