The Burney Relief (also known as the Queen of the Night relief) is a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in high relief of the Isin-Larsa period or Old- Babylonian period, depicting a winged, nude, goddess-like figure with bird's talons, flanked by owls, and perched upon two lions.

Inanna[a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar[b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯). Her primary title is "the Queen of Heaven".

2010年10月15日 · Through the work of the Akkadian poet and high priestess Enheduanna (l. 2285-2250 BCE), daughter of Sargon of Akkad (r. 2334-2279 BCE), Inanna was notably identified with Ishtar and rose in prominence from a local vegetative deity of the Sumerian people to the Queen of Heaven and the most popular goddess in all of Mesopotamia.

The Burney Relief (named for the antiquities dealer who owned it in 1935) is one of the most important works of art from the Ancient Near East. This terracotta plaque (37 cm wide by 49.5 cm high) is of undoubted authenticity and has been dated by the British Museum to 1800 B.C.

2014年2月19日 · The Queen of the Night (also known as the `Burney Relief') is a high relief terracotta plaque of baked clay, measuring 19.4 inches (49.5 cm) high, 14.5 inches (37 cm) wide, with a thickness of 1.8 inches (4.8 cm) depicting a naked winged woman flanked by owls and standing on the backs of two lions.

Inana (Sumerian)/Ištar (Akkadian) is among the most important deities and the most important goddess in the Mesopotamian pantheon. She is primarily known as the goddess of sexual love but is equally prominent as the goddess of warfare.

2019年5月5日 · The Burney Relief (known also as the Queen of the Night) is a terracotta plaque from ancient Mesopotamia. The relief is dominated by a nude female figure with wings and talons. She is usually identified as a goddess, though experts disagree with each other as to which deity she is supposed to be representing.

Inanna and a sacred marriage ritual was centred at Umk. Although EO royal inscriptions describe how rulers might be related to a deity, it is only at times, such as the 3rd Dynasty of Ur and Isin-Larsa period, when kings were elevated to divine sta

The center of Inanna’s worship and temple was Uruk (biblical Erech) in Sumer located in Babylon or southern Iraq just above the Persian Gulf. One of the rituals performed at the Uruk Temple, was the sacred marriage rite of the King to the goddess Inanna, therefore validating the king’s status – and – crop prosperity. (WOTG: 58-69; QH: 26.)

An alabaster disk measuring 10 inches across dating to the Akkadian period (ca. 2350–2150 B.C.) depicts a ceremony being led by a priestess—Enheduanna, the world’s first named author—who wears a...