07-31-2008, 02:17 PM
Quote:The Ishtar Gate is fantastic, isn't it? Glad to see it's still standing!I think it's a copy; Berlin has the original.
An interesting note: at the latest Rencontre Assyriologique, Joachim Oelsner told that the Procession Road in front of the Ishtar Gate was Hellenistic, almost certainly built by Antiochus I (as governor of Babylonia, before he became king).