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Wikipedia, "Ishtar Gate"
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The crowd sourced encyclopedia's article on the gate, read directly for this entry. Its strength is a well referenced construction, excavation and dimension record. Its limit is that it is not independently peer reviewed, so it is cited here for corroborated construction and dimension detail rather than for scholarly interpretive judgment, which the ISAW essay supplies instead.
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The crowd sourced encyclopedia's article on the gate, read directly for this entry, carries no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier though a well referenced tertiary account. NotesRead directly. Cited for the gate's construction under Nebuchadnezzar II circa 569 to 575 BCE, its glazed brick and gold, brown and white relief animals, its original height of roughly 15 meters with foundations extending 14 meters further underground, Robert Koldewey's German excavation of 1902 to 1914, and the reconstructed facade at Berlin's Pergamon Museum, measuring 14 meters high by 30 meters wide.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate
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This source backs 22 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sacred Art & Iconography, 14 claims: 10 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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