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The Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük (also Çatal Höyük) is a baked-clay, nude female form seated between feline-headed arm-rests. It is generally thought [ 2 ] to depict a corpulent and fertile Mother goddess [ 3 ] in the process of giving birth while seated on her throne, which has two hand rests in the form of feline (lioness, leopard, or ...
Seated woman of Çatalhöyük flanked by two lionesses. The Potnia Theron (Ancient Greek: Ἡ Πότνια Θηρῶν, romanized: Hē Pótnia Therón, lit. 'The Lady of Animals', [1] [hɛː pót.ni.a tʰɛː.rɔ̂ːn]) or Mistress of Animals is a widespread [not verified in body] motif in ancient art from the Mediterranean world and the ancient Near East, showing a central human, or human ...
Terracotta plaque of a seated goddess, possibly Nanaya, from Girsu. Kassite period. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul. First texts mentioning Nanaya come from the period of Shulgi's reign. [49] She is attested in the administrative texts from Puzrish-Dagan, where she is among the 12 deities who received offerings the most frequently. [4]
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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.
[4] [7] The statue is made of carved and polished granite and depicts the goddess in a seated position holding only an ankh in her left hand, and stands at a height of about 6 feet (184 cm). [ 2 ] The Statue of Sekhmet can be found on Level 3 of the ROM in the Galleries of Africa: Egypt, where close to 2,000 objects from the ROM's Egyptian ...
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Seated images of Ardhanarishvara are missing in iconographic treatises, but are still found in sculpture and painting. [ 30 ] [ 40 ] Though the canons often depict the Nandi bull as the common vahana (mount) of Ardhanarishvara, some depictions have Shiva's bull vahana seated or standing near or behind his foot, while the goddess's lion vahana ...