A01=Helen Gries
Antiquity
Author_Helen Gries
Babylon
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Mesopotamia
Nebuchadnezzar II
Nebuchadnezzar II's palace
throne room facade
Product details
- ISBN 9783795437268
- Weight: 208g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 2022
- Publisher: Schnell & Steiner GmbH, Verlag
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Paperback
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The lavishly decorated Ishtar Gate was one of ancient Babylon’s city gates. The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II built it in the 6th century BCE. During the annual New Year festival, the processions of the gods passed through this gate as they entered the city centre.
But how did the Babylonians make the glazed bricks used in the gate’s construction? What was the significance of the lions, dragons, and bulls that adorned the gate? How and why did pieces of the gate end up in Berlin, where the Ishtar Gate was reconstructed from thousands of fragments in the 1920s? And how authentic is this reconstruction?
Dr. Helen Gries studierte Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Altorientalistik und Vor- und Frühgeschichte in Mainz und München. Seit 2015 ist sie Kuratorin für Mesopotamien am Vorderasiatischen Museum Berlin. Aktuell forscht und publiziert sie vor allem zu altvorderasiatischen Glasurziegeln und Glasobjekten.
