ISHTAR GATE

Edited by Anastasia Amrhein, Clare Fitzgerald, and Elizabeth Knott
Distributed for the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University
ISBN: 9780691200156
Pages: 186 pages.
Illustrations: 160 color illus.
Dimensions: 9 x 10 1/2 inches Use Promo Code "25W" at Checkout for 25% off this item from November 25 to December 25, 2022

Bricks with a protective bull-man and cuneiform inscription.
Middle Elamite Period, Shutrukid Dynasty (reign of Kutir-Nahhunte and Shilhak-Inshushinak, ca. 1150–1120 BCE).
Molded baked clay.
Susa, Iran.
H. 139 cm; W. 36 cm; D. 33 cm.
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Antiquités orientales: Sb 21960.
Photo: Franck Raux. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY.

Vessel
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1400–1300 BCE
Core-formed, trail-decorated, and tooled glass with applied decoration
Probably Egypt
H. 10.7 cm; Diam. max. 5 cm.
The Corning Museum of Glass: 66.1.213
Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

Walter Andrae.
Partial reconstruction of the throne room façade from Nebuchadnezzar II’s Southern Palace showing fitters’marks on bricks (detail).
1901 CE.
Watercolor on paper.
H. 31.6 cm; W. 70.6 cm.
Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, Berlin: ArDOG V.28.18.
© Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, Archiv;
Photographer Olaf M. Teßmer.