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Processional Way, Babylon (

)

Artist

unknown artist
Details on Google Art Project

Title

Processional Way, Babylon

Object type

Moulded relief in parts

Description

Image of a lion made of clay bricks.

Date

(604 BCE - 562 BCE)

Medium

Fired clay bricks with polychrome glaze, moulded relief in parts

English: Fired clay bricks with polychrome glaze, moulded relief in parts

Dimensions

height: 12,500 mm (13.67 yd); width: 20,000 mm (21.87 yd)

Collection

Pergamon Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Pergamonmuseum
	Parent institution	Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
	Location	Berlin
	Coordinates	52° 31′ 15.6″ N, 13° 23′ 45.6″ E
	Established	1910
	Website	www.pergamon.de
	Authority file	: Q157298 VIAF: 131008425 ISNI: 0000000123155054 ULAN: 500221128 LCCN: nr95006694 NLA: 35304494 WorldCat

Current location

Level Principal Floor (Details of level on Google Art Project) room Processional Way of Babylon / Ishtar Gate of Babylon / Stelae from Assur (Details of room on Google Art Project)

Accession number

VA Bab 1379-1402

Source/Photographer

QAFcGuAYEoi2sA at Google Cultural Institute zoom level scaled down from maximum

Other versions

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Camera location	37° 46′ 35.52″ N, 122° 26′ 05.17″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	37.776532; -122.434769

Assessment


	This is a featured picture on Wiki Commons (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. With an aspect ratio of 8:5, 16:10, or 16:9, this image is suitable as a widescreen computer wallpaper (see gallery). This is a featured picture on the Arabic language Wikipedia (صور مختارة) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. This is a featured picture on the English language Wikipedia (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. If you have an image of similar quality that can be published under a suitable copyright license, be sure to upload it, tag it, and nominate it.

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

	This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
	This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

The official position taken by the Wiki Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

processional Way, Babylon - Google Art Project.jpg

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File history

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:27, 7 November 2012		30,000 × 18,296 (205.4 MB)	Dcoetzee	User created page with UploadWizard

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Usage on ar.wikipedia.org
Usage on es.wikipedia.org
- Panthera leo persica
Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
- Porte d'Ishtar
- Utilisateur:Witcher of Izalith/Galeries d'Izalith
Usage on gl.wikipedia.org
- Nacionalismo iraquí
Usage on hu.wikipedia.org
- Babilon
Usage on lt.wikipedia.org
- Pergamo muziejus
Usage on su.wikipedia.org
- Citakan:Gambar petingan/33 2021
- Wiki: Gambar petingan/Daptar Gambar petingan 2021
Usage on tr.wikipedia.org
- Babil aslanı

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Width	54,184 px
Height	33,045 px
Bits per component	8 8 8
Compression scheme	Deflate (PKZIP)
Pixel composition	RGB
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Data arrangement	chunky format
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Windows
File change date and time	11:39, 5 November 2012
Color space	Uncalibrated
Date and time of digitizing	21:26, 17 October 2012
Date metadata was last modified	03:39, 5 November 2012
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:04BAEB948027E211A0FDF9976F135102

processional Way, Babylon - Google Art Project.jpg

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processional Way, Babylon - Google Art Project.jpg

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coordinates of the point of view

37°46'35.5153889201"N, 122°26'5.1689177466"W

MIME type

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