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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 10:26, 8 December 2009: 800 × 800 (8 KB): Raphael 75 {{Information |Description={{en|1=Colored version of the ancient Mesopotamian eight-pointed star symbol of the goddess Ishtar (Inana/Inanna), representing the planet Venus as morning or evening star.
Reverted to version as of 12:37, 25 April 2012 (UTC) -- it's already transparent outside the circle. Please reupload different derived graphic as new image with a separate name: 12:37, 25 April 2012: 1,080 × 1,080 (957 bytes) AnonMoos: Adding SVG header per request : 00:03, 6 March 2009: 1,080 × 1,080 (1,018 bytes) AnonMoos
Inanna [a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power.Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar [b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯).
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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.
Ištaran (Ishtaran; Sumerian: 𒀭𒅗𒁲) was a Mesopotamian god who was the tutelary deity of the city of Der, a city-state located east of the Tigris, in the proximity of the borders of Elam.
Mušḫuššu bas-relief in the Pergamon Museum. The mušḫuššu (𒈲𒍽; formerly also read as sirrušu or sirrush) or mushkhushshu (pron [muʃxuʃʃu] or [musxussu]) is a creature from ancient Mesopotamian mythology.
During later times, slaves who worked in Ishtar's temples were sometimes branded with the seal of the eight-pointed star. [3] On boundary stones and cylinder seals , the eight-pointed star is sometimes shown alongside the crescent moon , which was the symbol of Sin , god of the Moon, and the rayed solar disk , which was a symbol of Shamash ...