Iconography

ERANOS ARCHIVE

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

PRE-CLASSICAL ICONOGRAPHY

Western Asia / Religious Iconography / Named deities / Ishtar (Inanna, Astarte)
Western Asia / Religious Iconography / Named deities / Lilith

Further details

Image taken from the Illustrated London News, June 13th, 1936, p. 1047

Artist or creator

Babylonian

Date

1900 BC - 1700 BC

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. Middle East)

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

Bibliographic Citation

Dominique Collon, The Queen of the Night, London 2005; Dominique Collon, The Queen under attack - A rejoinder, Iraq, 69, 2007

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