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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.
Many of these finds are now in the British Museum's permanent collection, [12] with smaller collections in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. [4] While working in the Badari region 1923–24, she explored prehistoric settlement remains at Hemamieh. Caton Thompson's work at the site was distinguished by its ...
Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt (1567–1641) (Art UK): Portrait of a Woman (Art UK) Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1681) (Art UK): A Woman in a Red Jacket feeding a Parrot (Art UK), An Old Fiddler (Art UK), Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Cunera van der Cock (Art UK), Self Portrait of the Artist, with a Cittern (Art UK)
The bones are currently on display at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. In December 2007, it was loaned for a year to the National Museum Cardiff. Subsequent excavations yielded more than 4,000 flints, teeth and bones, needles and bracelets, which are on exhibit at Swansea Museum and the National Museum in Cardiff. [citation needed]
The discovery of the Great Dover Street woman was announced in 2000 following excavations in 1996 at the site by Museum of London Archaeology. [1] The grave was a cremation dating from the early 2nd- to mid-3rd-century AD, from a bustum funeral over a pit into which the remains eventually fell and were covered. This sort of burial is rare in ...
Covering an area of 18 hectares (44 acres), at the time it was the largest archaeological excavation in Europe, [2] and is the largest excavation ever undertaken in the British Isles. [3] Excavation continued year-round to stay ahead of gravel extraction that was rapidly destroying the site, accumulating an "astonishing" volume of material. [4]
This is a list of women artists who were born in England or whose works are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Plate from By Nile and Tigris [5] vol.2, 1920 (facing p.360) showing how the body (EA 32751) was displayed in the British Museum at that time. The mummies were acquired by the British Museum in 1900. [17] One male adult body, museum number EA 32751 (then nicknamed "Ginger"), went on display in 1901 and was the earliest mummified body seen by ...