M0006298: Terracotta figurine of Ishtar, patroness of motherhood

Date:
May 1939
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/52/79
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Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts
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Contains: 1 image

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Terracotta figurine of Ishtar, patroness of motherhood

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a terracotta figurine of Ishtar (Inanna), Mesopotamian goddess and "Queen of Heaven". Reproduced in Contenau, Georges: La médecine en Assyrie et en Babylonie, Paris: Librairie Maloine, 1938. Related images: M0006299, M0006300, M0006301, M0006302

Publication/Creation

May 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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