{The Neo-Babylonian Period}[9th December 1990]

[Redbook8:123][19901209:1525b]{The Neo-Babylonian Period}[9th December 1990]

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‘Neo-Babylonian period. During the half-century following the fall of Ninevah, in 612BC[E], there was a final flowering of Mesopotamian culture in southern Iraq, under the last dynasty of Babylonian kings. During the reigns of Nabopolassar (625-605BC[E]) * and his son Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562BC[E], there was widespread building activity. Temples and ziggurats were repaired or rebuilt in almost all the old dynastic cities, while Babylon itself was enormously enlarged and surrounded by a double enceinte, or line of fortification, consisting of towered and moated fortress walls. Inside the city the most grandiose effect was obtained by the disposal of public buildings along a wide Processional Way, leading through** the centre of the town to the temple and ziggurat of its patron god, Marduk.*** Where the street passed through the inner city wall, the facades of the familiar Ishtar Gate*** (Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin) and those facing the adjoining street were ornamented in brightly glazed brickwork, with huge figures of bulls, lions and dragons modelled in relief.’

– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 21:]938

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Ishtar?	– – – –	+	– – – –	Marduk?
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Bulls	/		\	Lions
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		Dragons?#

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