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:
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“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)
“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)