The Burney Relief is a mesopotamiam terracotta plaque in high relief on the Old-Babylonian period.
Some forms of art found in Babylonian artifacts.
Ishtar Gate. Main entrance into Babylon.
Babylonian arts and architecture are inseparable from other Mesopotamian studies.
10th century BCE Babylonian art survives in a number of forms: cylinder seals, relatively small figures in the round, and relief of various sizes, including cheap plaques of moulded pottery for the home and some religious.
In Babylonia, an abundance of clay and lack of stone, led to the use of mudbrick.
Babylonian temples were massive structures of crude brick.
The walls were brilliantly colored and sometimes plated with zinc or gold or tiles.
The great Ziggurat built by Hammurabi in honour of ‘Marduk’ and big granary to preserve grains for future calamities testify the architectural skills of the Babylonians.
Ruins of a palace in Ur. An example of Babylonian Architecture.