Terracotta Fertility goddess, Ishtar (Astarte), Old Babylonian, c2000 BC. Artist: Unknown.

Terracotta Fertility goddess, Ishtar (Astarte), Old Babylonian, c2000 BC. Artist: Unknown.

2-668-217 - © CM Dixon/Heritage Images

Terracotta Fertility goddess, Ishtar (Astarte), Old Babylonian, c2000 BC. Ishtar was the Mesopotamian goddess of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, combat, and political power. At Archaeological Museum, Istanbul.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
People Related
  1. CM Dixon: British: Photographer

Medium
  1. Stone

Picture Type
  1. Object

Geographic Hierarchy

World Asia Iraq

  1. 33 00 00 N , 044 00 00 E

Category Hierarchy

Society & Culture Family Life

Religion & Belief Other

History & Politics Artefacts


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3520x5247
File Size : 54,110kb


Aliases

  1. MEDE36
  1. 0370005305
  1. 2-668-217
  1. 2668217
  1. 2GOST5 | ME3LB17-DX

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