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Drawing of the Ishtar Gate and Surrounding Walls
bricks
kind of stone)
Tiles on the Ishtar Gate
Dragon Decoration on the Ishtar Gate
Excivated Bull Decorations on the Ishtar Gate
Lion Decoration on the Processional Way
Both gate entrances of Imgur-Ellil and Nemetti-Ellil following the filling of the street from Babylon had become increasingly lower.
Therefore, I pulled down these gates and laid their foundations at the water table with asphalt and bricks and had them made of bricks with blue stone on which wonderful bulls and dragons were depicted.
I covered their roofs by laying majestic cedars length-wise over them. I hung doors of cedar adorned with bronze at all the gate openings.
I placed wild bulls and ferocious dragons in the gateways and thus adorned them with luxurious splendor so that people might gaze on them in wonder
I let the temple of Esiskursiskur (the highest festival house of Marduk, the Lord of the Gods a place of joy and celebration for the major and minor gods) be built firm like a mountain in the precinct of Babylon of asphalt and fired bricks."
Dedication Plaque on the Ishtar Gate
foundation of the gate was
discovered
incorporated into a
recreation of the gate in the
Pergamon Museum
Picture of the Excavation Site