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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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