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English: "The decoration of the walls of the Ishtar Gate consisted of alternated figures of bulls and dragons (sirrush). They are placed in horizontal rows on the parts of the walls that are open to observation by those entering or passing (Fig. 24), and also on the front of both the northern wings, but not where they would be wholly or partially invisible to the casual observer. The rows are repeated one above another; dragons and bulls are never mixed in the same horizontal row, but a line of bulls is followed by one of sirrush. Each single representation of an animal occupies a height of 13 brick courses, and between them are 11 plain courses, so that the distance from the foot of one to the foot of the next is 24 courses. These 24 courses together measure almost exactly 2 metres, or 4 Babylonian ells, in height. As these bricks change their standard when in use as binders or stretchers at the corners, the reliefs on one side of a corner are invariable either one course higher or lower than on the wall of the adjoining side." (Description goes on; see p. 41.) |
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Robert Koldewey. The Excavations at Babylon. Translated by Agnes S. Johns. With 255 Illustrations and Plans. St. Martin's Street, London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1914.
Fig. 24 p. 39.
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