Ishtar gate and Processional Way

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Ishtar gate and Processional Way발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: We're in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.발음듣기

And one of the most astonishing objects they have is-- well, it's not an object.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: It's a gate for a city.발음듣기

There were eight double gates that formed part of the walls around the ancient city of Babylon.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: It's huge.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: It doesn't just impress us, it impressed people when it was built.발음듣기

In fact, it was called one of the Wonders of the World.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: So Nebuchadnezzar, of biblical fame, ascended to the throne and proceeded to rebuild the already ancient city of Babylon.발음듣기

This is a city that has its roots in the third millennia BC, but had become a major political center under King Hammurabi in the 1700s BCE.발음듣기

The city had remained populated, but regained importance in the sixth century under Nebuchadnezzar II and under his father, 발음듣기

and what we're seeing here is part of the enormous building campaign that Nebuchadnezzar II had undertaken.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: We might recognize Nebuchadnezzar from the Bible, from the Book of Daniel.발음듣기

He's the ruler of Babylon who conquers and destroys the Temple in Jerusalem and who's responsible for the exile of the Jews.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: Clearly he was very powerful.발음듣기

He was able to undertake this enormous building campaign.발음듣기

He fortified and strengthened 11 miles of wall around the city of Babylon.발음듣기

He reconstructed the Great Ziggurat in Babylon, which had the temple of Marduk at its top and is probably the source of the story of the Tower of Babel.발음듣기

He created palaces, and he created this extraordinary gate.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: And Hanging Gardens, which were also considered one of the Wonders of the World.발음듣기

So the city of Babylon had eight double gates.발음듣기

The one we're looking at is one of those gates, and actually the smaller of the double gate.발음듣기

The other one would have been even larger, if that's possible to imagine.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: In fact, so large that the museum can't actually put it on display even in this very large space.발음듣기

This gate-- which, of course, would only be opened for the friendly-- is at the end of a long processional way lined with beautiful lions that speak very clearly of pride, of power, and of Nebuchadnezzar's rule.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: The lions that we see on the processional way represent Ishtar, one of the Babylonian goddesses, the goddess of war and wisdom and sexuality.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: They're raised up to eye level.발음듣기

And they're a little bit smaller than life-size, but they're pretty big.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: And they're frightening.발음듣기

Their mouths [? were ?] open in these ferocious roars.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: It's true. They're snarling, aren't they?발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: They are, but the fact that they're placed in this very regular way makes them seem as though they're almost trained, or controlled, by King Nebuchadnezzar himself.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: It makes us fear not only the lions, but it makes us fear the king.발음듣기

The image of the lion is beautiful, this faience raised to create a kind of relief sculpture.발음듣기

So in addition to the lions, there are two other animal forms that decorate the gate.발음듣기

And they're both meant to be as ferocious as the lions.발음듣기

A kind of ancient bull, known as an auroch-- these were supposed to be terribly fierce.발음듣기

And then alternating with the rows of auroch are a kind of Mesopotamia dragon, which is really a composite beast.발음듣기

The front paws are those of lions.발음듣기

The head and neck come from a snake or serpent.발음듣기

The hind legs come from an eagle, perhaps.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: And their tails have a stinger like a scorpion.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: Those dragons are associated with Marduk, the patron god of the city.발음듣기

And Nebuchadnezzar associated himself directly with Marduk.발음듣기

The aurochs-- that is, these bulls-- are associated with the god Adad, a god associated with storms, with the fertility of the land, with the harvest.발음듣기

All of these animals speak to protecting the city but also providing for the city.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: They're ferocious animals, but they're also represented in a very regular way along the procession, and on the tower and archway of the gate, so that there's symmetry, a sense of order, in the way that they're represented.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: One of the most extraordinary aspects of these towers, of the gate as a whole, is the color.발음듣기

This is an arid place where the sun is bright, where it gets really hot.발음듣기

And you can imagine how brilliant the blues and the greens of the surface would have originally been, not in the context of the museum, but in the context of the edge of a desert.발음듣기

In Mesopotamia, there was a real problem.발음듣기

The Egyptians were able to build their great pyramids and other monuments out of the native stone that surrounded them.발음듣기

But in Mesopotamia, they didn't have that.발음듣기

This was a river valley.발음듣기

Babylon is on the banks of the Euphrates.발음듣기

In fact, the Euphrates cuts right through the city.발음듣기

When the Mesopotamians wanted to build, they created buildings out of brick created from the clay of the river valley.발음듣기

The brilliant blue that we see on the surface of the gate is faience.발음듣기

This is a technique that was known to the ancient Egyptians and other parts of the ancient world.발음듣기

And it uses copper to create this brilliant blue.발음듣기

And this is a beautiful example.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: So the gate is massive. It's frightening. It's decorative. And it's brilliantly colored.발음듣기

No wonder Nebuchadnezzar was so proud of it and wrote an inscription on the side.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: Let's go read that.발음듣기

Now, we're not sure where the inscription was originally placed on the wall.발음듣기

But in this reconstruction, it's on the left side of the left tower. Here's an excerpt.발음듣기

I, Nebuchadnezzar, laid the foundation of the gates down to the groundwater level and had them built out of pure blue stone.발음듣기

Upon the walls in the inner room of the gate are bulls and dragons.발음듣기

And thus, I magnificently adorned them with luxurious splendor for all mankind to behold in awe.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: And we are in awe two and a half millennia later.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: Nebuchadnezzar understood his place in history.발음듣기

And he actually wrote inscriptions in his new buildings that not only identified them and identified their purpose and him as their patron, but also asked future rulers to rebuild them for him.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: It's as though he knew that empires come and go.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: And that he could speak across history.발음듣기

And in our time, the ruler of Mesopotamia, which we now call Iraq, seemed to pay attention.발음듣기

Saddam Hussein actually had begun the rebuilding of parts of Babylonia.발음듣기

He built his own palace a few hundred meters away from the Ishtar Gate and began the reconstruction of parts of the city, as well.발음듣기

That came to a halt, of course, in the recent military actions against him.발음듣기

And of course, he was ultimately deposed and killed.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: And what it meant to rebuild this legendary city.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: Saddam Hussein was very much rebuilding it not for Nebuchadnezzar, but for his own political ambition.발음듣기

DR. BETH HARRIS: Reclaiming the power of Nebuchadnezzar for himself.발음듣기

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: That's right. And the power of ancient Mesopotamia.발음듣기

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