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The Mask of Warka in the National Museum of Iraq today. The Mask of Warka (named after the modern village of Warka located close to the ancient city of Uruk ), also known as the Lady of Uruk, dating from 3100 BC, is one of the earliest known representations of the human face. The carved marble female face is probably a depiction of Inanna.
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 ). Her primary title is "the ...
Art of Uruk. Mask of Warka, or Head of Inanna, found at Uruk, c. 3100 BCE. The art of Uruk encompasses the sculptures, seals, pottery, architecture, and other arts produced in Uruk, an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia that thrived during the Uruk period around 4200-3000 BCE. [1] : 40 The city continued to develop into the Early Dynastic ...
Enheduanna ( Sumerian: 𒂗𒃶𒌌𒀭𒈾[ 1] Enḫéduanna, also transliterated as Enheduana, En-he2-du7-an-na, or variants) was the entu (high) priestess of the moon god Nanna (Sīn) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur in the reign of her father, Sargon of Akkad ( r. c. 2334 – c. 2279 BCE). She was likely appointed by her father as the ...
Uruk, known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river. The site lies 93 kilometers (58 miles) northwest of ancient Ur, 108 kilometers (67 miles) southeast of ancient Nippur, and 24 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of ancient Larsa.
Alongside Inanna, Utu was the enforcer of divine justice. [94] Inanna Ishtar [95] Eanna temple in Uruk, [96] [46] [53] though she also had temples in Nippur, Lagash, Shuruppak, Zabalam, and Ur [96] Venus [46] Inanna, later known as Ishtar, is "the most important female deity of ancient Mesopotamia at all periods."
Registration. 2003,0718.1. 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. Side view showing depth of the relief.
Epithets of Inanna were titles and bynames used to refer to this Mesopotamian goddess and to her Akkadian counterpart Ishtar. In Mesopotamia, epithets were commonly used in place of the main name of the deity, and combinations of a name with an epithet similar to these common in ancient Greek religion are comparatively uncommon.