Queen of the Night Relief Art Print

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The Queen of the Night Relief, Old Babylonian Empire, c. 1775 BC.

The Queen of the Night Relief, also known as the Burney Relief, is a high relief Babylonian terracota plaque depicting a goddess, nude, winged and with bird's talons who stands on two lions and is flanked by two owls. The composition as a whole is unique among works of art from Mesopotamia, even though many elements have interesting counterparts in other images from that time.

Pigment traces allow us to reconstruct its original coloration. The goddess was painted red overall. Her feathers and the owls' were colored red, black and white. The background of the plaque was black, as her hair and eyebrows and the lions' manes. The pubic triangle and the areola were accentuated in red pigment but not painted black. The lions' bodies were white. It is assumed (inferred from other illustrations of the same period and place) the horns of the headdress and part of the necklace were originally colored yellow, as t...

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