Iconography

ERANOS ARCHIVE

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

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Sorcery and magic / Magical devices / Fertility figurines

PRE-CLASSICAL ICONOGRAPHY

Western Asia / Conception and pregnancy / Fertility figurines
Western Asia / Religious Iconography / Named deities / Ishtar (Inanna, Astarte)

Further details

Van Buren dated the relief at top to 2400 BC; the relief at bottom left to 2200 BC; the relief at bottom right to 2000 BC

Artist or creator

Sumerian

Date

2400 BC (circa) - 2000 BC

Location

New Haven, CT, Yale University Babylonian Collection

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

Bibliographic Citation

Elizabeth Douglas van Buren, Clay Figurines of Babylonia and Assyria, New Haven & Oxford 1931, pl. 25

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