Packaging Design for a face cream, made with ingredients sourced from the Gardens of Bablylon.
Sammu-ramat was the first queen of the of the Neo-Assyrian regime of the ninth century B.C., and commanded an entire empire stretching from Asia Minor to what is today western Iran. Centuries after her reign, Greek writers, and historians focused on Sammu-ramat and her achievements.
They hellenized her name to Semiramis.
From here, the Assyrian queen passed from the world of facts into the realm of legend. Some cast her as a beautiful femme fatale in a tragic love story. Classical authors attributed great accomplishments to Semiramis: commander of armies, and builder of the walls of Babylon and monuments throughout her empire.
Her five-year rule, while brief, appears to have inspired long-lasting respect among her subjects and the world.
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Semiramis in Dante's Inferno, José Casado del Alisal at the Facultad de Bellas Artes In Madrid.
The fall of Babylon