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Portcullis at Desmond Castle, Adare, County Limerick, Ireland The inner portcullis of the Torre dell'Elefante in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy A portcullis (from Old French porte coleice 'sliding gate') is a heavy, vertically closing gate typically found in medieval fortifications. [1]
Nikkō Tōshō-gū's omote-mon (front gate) structurally is a hakkyakumon (eight-legged gate). Mon (門, gate) is a generic Japanese term for gate often used, either alone or as a suffix, in referring to the many gates used by Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and traditional-style buildings and castles.
Gate from Bucharest (Romania) Art Nouveau gate of Castel Béranger (Paris) Candi bentar, a typical Indonesian gate that is often found on the islands of Java and Bali. A gate or gateway is a point of entry to or from a space enclosed by walls. The word derived from old Norse "gat" [1] meaning road or path; But other terms include yett and port.
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The front of the gate has a low-relief design with a repeated pattern of images of two of the major gods of the Babylonian pantheon. Marduk, the national deity and chief god, with his servant dragon Mušḫuššu, is depicted as a dragon with a snake-like head and tail, a scaled body of a lion, and powerful talons for back feet. Marduk was seen ...
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