The ambitious project began in A statue of the god Marduk was carried along it during the New Year Festival. After cleaning them, the fragments were classified according to color and whether they formed part of an animal. Then began the enormous challenge of trying to solve the puzzle. Only when a specific piece of tile was missing would it be substituted with a modern replica. The partial reconstructions of the Processional Way and the Ishtar Gate were inaugurated in at the Pergamon Museum.
The museum is only able to display the front part of the gate the second, larger gate is in storage as of this writing. All rights reserved. Tracks were laid to down help haul away the waste soil, sand, and rubble. Divine Procession. Please be respectful of copyright.
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Search for Ishtar within the Berlin State Museums collection in the Artstor Digital Library to see the structure in the museum, frieze details, and drawings and models of the Gate and the Processional Way. March 27, Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Email. Even before excavations began, head archaeologist Robert Koldewey thought he knew what he would find.
Two years later, the digging began — and the ancient city began to reveal itself. And certainly, after it was set up, it became a major tourist attraction. After its discovery, it became one again. The German archaeologists excavated as much as they could but when World War One came in , the dig was shut down.
But the Germans were still able to negotiate with the occupying British forces to ship some of their finds to Berlin, including the Gate of Ishtar. What was put on display in the s was not, and still is not, the entire gate: it was too large. After World War Two, another large excavation took place, this one led by Italian archaeologists, says Machinist.
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