Iconography

ERANOS ARCHIVE

87-103. The Great Mother / 95. Babylonia, Phoenicia, Cyprus

PRE-CLASSICAL ICONOGRAPHY

Western Asia / Religious Iconography / Divine symbols / Bull
Western Asia / Religious Iconography / Divine symbols / Sacred tree

Further details

This illustration does not seem very relevant to the theme of the Great Mother. On the reverse is a foundation figure from Uruk, commemorating the building of the temple of Inanna (see link to British Museum below); perhaps this was originally meant as the theme of the image

Artist or creator

Susa

Date

2300 BC (circa)

Location

Paris, Musée du Louvre

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

Bibliographic Citation

Christian Zervos, L'art de la Mésopotamie de la fin du quatrième millénaire au XVe siècle avant notre ère, Paris 1935, fig. p. 227

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Web resources

British Museum

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