The Queen of the Night: British Museum Objects in Focus (Objects in Focus S.) - Softcover

Buch 5 von 23: Object in Focus

Collon, Dominique

 
9780714150437: The Queen of the Night: British Museum Objects in Focus (Objects in Focus S.)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0714150436 ISBN 13: 9780714150437
Verlag: British Museum Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

This large Old Babylonian plaque, found in southern Iraq, was made between 1800 and 1750 B.C., and probably stood in a shrine. Named the 'Queen of the Night', the mysterious figure could be the demoness Lilitu, known in the Bible as Lilith, or a Mesopotamian goddess. She wears the horned headdress characteristic of a Mesopotamian deity and holds two symbols of her divinity - a rod and ring of justice. Her long multi-coloured wings hang downwards, indicating that she is a goddess of the Underworld, and her legs end in the talons of a bird of prey, similar to those of the two owls beside her. This book explores the symbolism and history behind this beautiful and highly unusual clay relief.

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Dominique Collon is curator of the Mesopotamian collections in the British Museum.

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Verlag
British Museum Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0714150436
ISBN 13 
9780714150437
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
48
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