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(The famous blue-glazed gate that Nebuchadnezzar commissioned was excavated in the early 20th century and rebuilt in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin).
"You are Here," says a big painted sign behind a reconstruction of the famous blue-glazed Ishtar Gate at Babylon (the original was swept off to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin).
But the gate.
To the 1st millennium bce belong also the magnificent colossal statues of protective genies (spirits) in the shape of lions or human-headed bulls that guarded the entrances to Assyrian palaces, and also, on the gates of Nebuchadrezzar's (died 562 bce) Babylon, the reliefs in glazed tile of lions and dragons that served the same purpose.
And just as the processional path to the original gate is lined with tile reliefs of striding lions, the lion on view here, in turquoise, cream and yellow glazed brick, is enough to evoke the presence of the others.
"The glazed lid.
Perhaps the majority of extant glazed stonewares are salt-glazed.
"A glazed doughnut".
But I usually get a glazed look.
I had blank, glazed eyes.
Glazed ceramics, steel and wood.
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