A Clash of Kings – Qarth
On the walls of Qarth, men beat gongs to herald her coming, while others blew curious horns that encircled their bodies like great bronze snakes. A column of camelry emerged from the city as her honor guards. The riders wore scaled copper armor and snouted helms with copper tusks and long black silk plumes, and sat high on saddles inlaid with rubies and garnets. Their camels were dressed in blankets of a hundred different hues.
A Clash of Kings – Chapter 27 – Daenerys
Just as Arya arrived in Harrenhal in the last chapter, Dany arrives in one of the other main locations of this book, the city of Qarth. Mr. Martin’s description of the walls reminded me very much of the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, so I took that as far as I could. Regrettably, the format didn’t give me much room for a lot of the other details.