Glazed brick bas-relief decorated with the snake-dragon Mushhushshu on the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, reconstructed at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The dragon has the talons of a bird of prey, the tale of a snake, the head of a dragon and its body is covered in scales.  Not all hybrid creatures were evil. The snake-dragon was, in the 1^st millennium BCE, the symbol of the god Marduk and his son Nabu in Babylonia. He is represented on the walls and gates of Babylon, which it protects. (Babylonia, 6^th century BCE)