File:British Museum Queen of the Night.jpg
Summary
Rectangular, baked clay relief panel; modelled in relief on the front depicting a nude female figure with tapering feathered wings and talons, standing with her legs together; shown full frontal, wearing a headdress consisting of four pairs of horns topped by a disc; wearing an elaborate necklace and bracelets on each wrist; holding her hands to the level of her shoulders with a rod and ring in each; figure supported by a pair of addorsed lions above a scale-pattern representing mountains or hilly ground, and flanked by a pair of standing owls. Known as the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burney_Relief" class="extiw" title="en:Burney Relief">Burney Relief</a>" or the "Queen of the Night".
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| current | 09:02, 5 January 2017 | | 1,660 × 2,208 (1.04 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Rectangular, baked clay relief panel; modelled in relief on the front depicting a nude female figure with tapering feathered wings and talons, standing with her legs together; shown full frontal, wearing a headdress consisting of four pairs of horns topped by a disc; wearing an elaborate necklace and bracelets on each wrist; holding her hands to the level of her shoulders with a rod and ring in each; figure supported by a pair of addorsed lions above a scale-pattern representing mountains or hilly ground, and flanked by a pair of standing owls. Known as the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burney_Relief" class="extiw" title="en:Burney Relief">Burney Relief</a>" or the "Queen of the Night". |
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