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    The Burney Relief (also known as the Queen of the Night relief) is a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in high relief of the Isin-Larsa period or Old-Babylonian...
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    Burney Relief as related to Lilith. Frankfort and Kraeling identified the figure in the relief with Lilith. Today, the identification of the Burney Relief...
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    Bēlet-Ninua in the neo-Babylonian period. The Burney Relief, also known as The Queen of the Night relief, is a terracotta panel from the Old Babylonian...
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    and reliefs of various sizes, including cheap plaques of moulded pottery for the home, some religious and some apparently not. The Burney Relief is an...
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    ISBN 0-292-70794-0) Jacobsen, Thorkild (1987) "Pictures and pictorial language (the Burney Relief)". In: M. Mindlin, M.J. Geller and J.E. Wansbrough, eds., Figurative...
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  • cedar forest. In the past identification of the figure depicted on the Burney Relief as ardat-lilî or lilītu has been proposed, but today it is considered...
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    The bird-footed night shedah (goddess/she-devil) of the Burney relief (Isin-Larsa or Old Babylonian period circa 1800 BCE)...
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    and reliefs of various sizes, including cheap plaques of moulded pottery for the home, some religious and some apparently not. The Burney Relief is an...
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    phallus-shaped stones, these suggest some sort of fertility cult. The Burney Relief is an outstanding terracotta plaque from Ancient Mesopotamia of about...
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    bathrooms. The Old Babylonian Lilitu demon, particularly as shown in the Burney Relief (part-woman, part-owl) prefigures the harpy/siren motif. Harpies were...
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    BCE Relief of Gilgamesh, the king-hero of Uruk, battling the 'bull of heavens' Babylonian statuette of a goddess (Astarte or Ishtar) The Burney Relief, First...
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    associated with the contiguous first constellation, Aries. Babylonian terracotta relief of Ishtar from Eshnunna (early second millennium BCE) Life-sized statue...
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    and TV as representing Ancient Egypt in all periods. Nude deities The Burney Relief, First Babylonian Dynasty (c. 1800 BCE) Apollo, one of the Greek gods...
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    and Egypt Babylonian statuette of a goddess (Astarte or Ishtar) The Burney Relief, First Babylonian Dynasty (c. 1800 BCE) Dancers and Flutists, Thebes...
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  • Brugmansia, also called angel's trumpet Queen of the Night Relief, formerly known as the Burney Relief, a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in the British Museum...
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    The "Burney Relief", which is speculated to represent either Ishtar or her older sister Ereshkigal (c. 19th or 18th century BCE)...
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  • by his son at auction at Sotheby's. He sold an artefact known as the Burney Relief, later called "Queen of the Night," when it was acquired by the British...
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    god from Ishchali, attributed to the period between 2000–1600 BC. The Burney Relief is an unusual, elaborate, and relatively large (20×15 inches) terracotta...
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    the arrival of the new King of France, Henry II. A similar rhinoceros, in relief, decorates a panel in one of the bronze west doors of Pisa Cathedral. The...
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  • large collection of Near and Middle Eastern artefacts, including the Burney Relief. Norman Robert Colville was born at Jerviston House near Motherwell...
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  • The Burney Relief (c. 1792 - 1750 BC), representing an ancient Babylonian goddess, possibly Inanna or Ereshkigal...
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    Obelisk of Shalmaneser III Kition Necropolis Phoenician inscriptions Burney Relief Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir Tablet of Shamash Statue of Idrimi Babylonian...
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  • 20 minutes. Releases of the album commonly feature depictions of the Burney Relief in the album artwork; the significance of this is that the central figure...
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    1950. In 1937 Frankfort and Emil Kraeling identified a woman on the Burney Relief (c 1700BCE) as Lilith of later Jewish mythology, though this identification...
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  • Pendant, the Investiture of Zimri-Lim, the Thun-Renzenbühl axe, the Burney Relief, and the potbelly sculptures of Pre-Olmec Mesoamerica. 1802 BC – The...
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  • papers in agreement with Henri Frankfort identifying a woman in the Burney Relief as the Lilith of later Jewish mythology. The Old Testament since the...
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    Obelisk of Shalmaneser III Kition Necropolis Phoenician inscriptions Burney Relief Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir Tablet of Shamash Statue of Idrimi Babylonian...
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    Obelisk of Shalmaneser III Kition Necropolis Phoenician inscriptions Burney Relief Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir Tablet of Shamash Statue of Idrimi Babylonian...
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    Obelisk of Shalmaneser III Kition Necropolis Phoenician inscriptions Burney Relief Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir Tablet of Shamash Statue of Idrimi Babylonian...
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  • Obelisk of Shalmaneser III Kition Necropolis Phoenician inscriptions Burney Relief Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir Tablet of Shamash Statue of Idrimi Babylonian...
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