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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 period, depicting a winged, nude, goddess-like figure with bird's talons, flanked by owls, and perched upon two lions.
It was acquired by the British Museum in 1882 (BM 92687); [4] the text was first translated in 1889. [5] The tablet is usually thought to have originated in Borsippa. [6] In 1995, a new section of the tablet was discovered, at the point of the upper-most triangle. [7] The map is used as the logo of the academic journal Imago Mundi. [8]
Breasted received a reply from Rockefeller pledging $50,000 over five years for the Oriental Institute. Rockefeller also assured University of Chicago president Harry Pratt Judson that he would pledge another $50,000 to the cause. The University of Chicago contributed additional support, and in May 1919 the Oriental Institute was founded. [3]
Room 6 – Pair of Human Headed Winged Lions and reliefs from Nimrud with the Balawat Gates, c. 860 BC. The Department of the Middle East (formerly Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, then Department of Ancient Near East), numbering some 330,000 works, [1] forms a significant part of the collections of the British Museum, and the world's largest collection of Mesopotamian antiquities ...
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The griffin in classical mythology was depicted as a lion-eagle creature. Griffin-like creatures were depicted in Egyptian and Persian mythology. The first beast in the first vision of the biblical prophet Daniel resembled a winged lion. The winged lion was the heraldic symbol of Mark the Evangelist. The goetic demon Vapula was depicted as a ...
The Lion of Babylon is an ancient Babylonian symbol. [1] History. Antiquity. The Lion of Babylon symbolically represented the King of Babylon. [1]
Relief of the Lion hunt of Ashurbanipal, British Museum Relief with Ashurbanipal killing a lion, c. 645–635 BC The king shoots arrows from his chariot, while huntsmen fend off a lion behind The royal Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal is shown on a famous group of Assyrian palace reliefs from the North Palace of Nineveh that are now displayed in room ...