Relief. Old Babylonian (Mesopotamia). Iraq, south. 19thC BC-18thC BC. Rectangular, baked clay relief panel, H 49.50 cm., Thickness: 4.8 cm.; modelled in relief on the front depicting a nude female figure with tapering feathered wings and talons, standing with her legs together; shown full frontal, wearing a headdress consisting of four pairs of horns topped by a disc; wearing an elaborate necklace and bracelets on each wrist; holding her hands to the level of her shoulders with a rod and ring in each; figure supported by a pair of addorsed lions above a scale-pattern representing mountains or hilly ground, and flanked by a pair of standing owls. Known as the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burney_Relief" class="extiw" title="en:Burney Relief">Burney Relief</a>" or the "Queen of the Night". Museum number 2003,0718.1 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_2003-0718-1">[1]</a>
24 June 2010
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