Gallery
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Photo of the remains from the 1930s of the excavation site in Babylon
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Model of the main procession street (Aj-ibur-shapu) towards Ishtar Gate
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Model of the gate; the double structure is clearly recognisable.
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Aurochs and dragons from the gate in the Istanbul Archaeology Museums
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One of the dragons from the gate
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Building inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar II
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Lions and flowers decorated the processional street.
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The replica Ishtar Gate in Babylon in 2004
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Ishtar Gate in Babylon, Iraq in 2011
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)