Plaque
Figurine
B3508
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | B3508 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Terracotta |
Iconography | Deity | Headdress | Spear |
Description | CBS Register: fragment, terracotta relief (upper part). Deity with horned headdress holding spear in each hand PBS XVI: War goddess holding a lance in each hand. She may be Ishtar fully dressed in a royal tunic of kaunakes. She wears a horned crown of a very archaic type, with only one pair of horns and in the centre a bull’s head between eagle feathers, as on the Stele of the Vultures. Prominent meeting eyebrows, lock of hair falling over the ears, and tight necklace belong to good archaic style. molded relief on a flat background. |
Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur II, 1890 |
Other Number | PBS XVI: 197 - Other Number |
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