Ishtar Gate (Ištar)

The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the innter city of Babylon. It was constructed in 569 B.C. on the nothen side of the city.

This set is a reconstruction of how the Ishtar gate could have look like when it was build. While searching for images, I noticed that some of these reconstructions had some slits above the gates but I decided to not include them because the one preserved today in the Museum of Pergamon in Berlin didn't have them.

Today a lot of attention gets caught by the Roman Empire, and for a good reason since it's what basically infuenced the modern world the most; but while we focus so much on it, we tend to ignore cultures that are as important as the romans or even more for someone living outside of the "western world". With this set I want not only to replicate the Gate as it could have looked like when it was build 2500 years ago, but also shift, even for a little bit, the focus to other people that created beautiful things in the past.

The set has 758 parts and the base is 30x20 studs.