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The Wedding Dance Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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SNAKE-DRAGON, SYMBOL OF MARDUK, THE PATRON GOD OF BABYLON PANEL FROM THE ISHTAR GATE

Date: 604/562 BC
Medium: Terracotta glazed and molded bricks.
Dimensions: 45 1/2 x 65 3/4 in. 115.6 x 167.0 cm
Department: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Classification: Sculpture
Credit: Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
Accession No.: 31.25
Provenance: Babylon, Iraq Vorderasiastisches Museum, Berlin
Keywords: clay, earthenware, glaze, glazed, relief, terracotta, mosaic, animalia

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