When talking about the city of Babylon historical about 90 km south of the capital, Baghdad, to the north a little city of Hilla, Babil province, is mentioned the most important landmarks such as Babylon, a ziggurat tower and temple Mrdug god president and the Ishtar Gate and street procession and the city walls and the southern Tsar and the throne room and outstanding gardens that differed scientists effects in determining their place in the city of Babylon, and say what little earlier ... lion of Babylon .. what is his story?
There in the ancient city of Babylon palace called the North or the palace of President Palace, and suggest that the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar has built in the last years of his rule, and make part of it a museum called the "Museum of Nebuchadnezzar," It has been found antiquarians in this place a set of artifacts dating back to eras prior to the time of King Nebuchadnezzar, including the famous lion of Babylon, as well as war booty brought in by the king of the countries conquered.
As for the stories of people and their fatwas, there is much that has been said about Lion of Babylon, it symbolizes the Babylonians and man power which is beneath it, and some say she is a woman underneath it symbolizes mankind, and this means that the Babylonians in control of the human world, another story says that the lion gods code Ishtar There saddle on the back to sit him Ishtar and led, and some of them say that it is within the spoils Museum is to win the Babylonians to their enemies code and bring the booty and gifts from conquered cities, and perhaps there are other stories about the lion of Babylon, but just .... stories and tales ..
Aadamha to support it and archaeologists, either closely or from afar !!
The fact Lion of Babylon before two choices only two:
Either have King Nebuchadnezzar had brought from the spoils in one of his conquests.
Or to be a Lion of Babylon, a return to the era of the oldest of the time of Nebuchadnezzar.
In the second case it should be Lion of Babylon, also with the booty in one of the older Babylonian invasions into Bnokhz Nasr Why?
1-because the shape and style of design Lion of Babylon is not Pablaa, as it was black Babylonian known, clear and uncomplicated.
2-The Lion of Babylon monument unique and strange in the city of Babylon, and is not available in abundance to say that Babylonian-made sculpture.
3. The lion goddess Ishtar is also evident in the procession and street looks like a Lion of Babylon at all.
4-en bloc concrete hardened to Lion of Babylon and its base does not indicate that it is Babylonia flat sedimentary but denotes' It came from a mountainous area mostly, yes can bring stones and rare rocks in remote areas to carve pictures of kings were also up Lagash Sumerian Goudea but found many of the statues that approximately twenty statues, mostly now in the Louvre in Paris, not a statue or monument one orphan as is the case in the monument lion of Babylon.
In this data it is clear that Lion of Babylon is not Pablaa, is likely to be confined to his time between the Babylonian king Hammurabi and his children through the Covenant Assyrian mediator and talk, as Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and is heir to the Babylonian and Assyrian intermediate and final times.
Perhaps Lion of Babylon of the spoils brought in from the city of Hatosas capital of the Hittite Empire and the subsequent covenants, which is now known as the archaeological site "Boğazköy" in eastern central Turkey, Ankara, as the black gates of the city, which occupies close resemblance Lion of Babylon, and from the same mountainous Article approx.
Nntzraltqanyat future that will reveal the buried facts which will confirm or correct this hypothesis about the origin of Lion of Babylon, non-Babli
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