Queen of the Night (Relief plaque)
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found: The Queen of the Night, c2005: $b t.p. ; p. 5 (The "Burney Relief" is a large plaque of baked clay measuring 49.5 cm high by 37 cm wide, modelled in high relief with the figure of a curvaceous naked lady in horned headdress, with long wings and legs ending in the talons of a bird, resting on the backs of two lions; made in Babylonia (ancient Iraq); Sydney Burney acquired it ca. 1936, and in 2002 the British Museum bought it from Goro Sakamoto for £1,500,000, and changed its name from "Burney Relief" to "Queen of the Night")
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2007-02-09: new
2007-03-03: revised
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