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| Keywords: British Museum Queen of the Night.jpg Burney Relief or the Queen of the Night BabelStone own Museum British Museum credit line 2010-06-24 Details 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 Burney Relief or the Queen of the Night Height 49 5 centimetres<br/>Width 37 centimetres<br/>Thickness 4 8 centimetres G56/MES1/23 cc-zero People standing on animals symbolism Burney relief Queen of the Night | ||||
