The Ishtar Gate Stone Sculptures of Babylon
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The Ishtar Gate Stone Sculptures of Babylon
The Babylonian Lions stone sculptures associated with the goddess Ishtar goddess of fertility are over 3,600 years old and were discovered in ancient Babylon Iraq. This discovery was first documented in 1817 by Claudius Riche although Joseph de Beauchamp may have seen the sculptures as early as 1790. The Babylonian Lions are a walking lion motif that adorned the walkway leading to the Ishtar Gate and are displayed in several museums including the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
The image shows a section of the processional way adorned with moving lion sculptures built during the ancient Babylonian Empire.
The jeweled symbols of the goddess Ishtar adorn the front as you pass through the gate. A ceremonial procession of approximately 120 lions bulls dragons and flowers is depicted on yellow and black glazed brick. It is believed that the ancient Babylonian lion statues and the solid stone lions were originally placed on saddles on which statues of the goddess Ishtar goddess of fertility once stood or sat. The gate's magnificent glazed brickwork is decorated with bas-reliefs representing the god Marduk of the Babylonian Temple.
Mušḫuššu or the sacred dragon serpent from ancient Mesopotamian mythology appears on the glazed brick wall decoration of the Ishtar Gate in Babylon
These jeweled images depict dragons with serpentine heads and tails lions with scales and powerful hind claws with larger gates behind the walls adorned with blue glazed pottery. Part of Hillah Babylon Iraq built around 575 BC by King Nebuchadnezzar II was the northern gate of the city center and part of a large city wall part of a procession route with walkways leading to the city gate. Magnificent frescoes depicting the ancient Babylonian city walls decorated with bright blue glazed brick and intricate bas reliefs depicting the goddess of love and fertility symbolizing the Ishtar Babylon gate.
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