The gate of the year

Bas-relief representing the goddess Ishtar, from the ancient city of Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, in Iraq) and dating to the early II millennium B.C. The goddess holds in her hand the attribute that was already proper to the Sumerian Inanna: a cluster of dates. In Babylonian pantheon, Ishtar was the goddess of love and of war and to her was dedicated one of the eight gates to the inner city of Babylon. The object is in the Louvre Museum.

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Bas-relief representing the goddess Ishtar, from the ancient city of Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, in Iraq) and dating to the early II millennium B.C. The goddess holds in her hand the attribute that was already proper to the Sumerian Inanna: a cluster of dates. In Babylonian pantheon, Ishtar was the goddess of love and of war and to her was dedicated one of the eight gates to the inner city of Babylon. The object is in the Louvre Museum. [Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ishtar_Eshnunna_Louvre_AO12456.jpg]