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When German archaeologists [Change to Robert Koldewey] excavated in Babylon during the early 20th century [the 1930s], they dismantled the Ishtar Gate and packed it up to take with them to Berlin. It was meticulously reconstructed in the Pergamon Museum. The gate is 50 feet high, and the original foundations extended another 45 feet underground. Other panels are [displayed] in many other museums around the world. [Listing the 11 museums that currently contain pieces of the Gate]


 * Louvre, Paris
 * Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago
 * Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
 * Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul
 * Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
 * Röhsska Museum, Gothenberg
 * State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich
 * Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
 * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
 * Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence

Discussing the structure of the Gate


 * The reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum is not a complete replica of the entire gate. The original structure was a double gate with a smaller frontal gate and a larger and more grandiose secondary posterior section . The only section on display in the Pergamon is the smaller frontal segment of the structure.

Bibliography/Notes

 * R. P. D. (1932). The Lion of Ishtar. Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University, 4(3), 144-147. Retrieved September 19, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/405

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