Found in southern Iraq and made between 1800 and 1750 BC, this old Babylonian plaque depicts a mysterious figure that could be the demoness Lilitu or a Mesopotamian goddess. The polychrome 3D reconstruction was based on the digital reconstruction produced by the British Museum’s New Media Unit also illustrated and described in the book The Queen Of The Night by Dominique Collon. Height: 49.5 cm Current location: Room 56, British Museum Polychrome reconstruction: Collon, Dominique, The Queen of the Night, British Museum objects in focus, London, BMP, 2005.
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Found in southern Iraq and made between 1800 and 1750 BC, this old Babylonian plaque depicts a mysterious figure that could be the demoness Lilitu or a Mesopotamian goddess. The polychrome 3D reconstruction was based on the digital reconstruction produced by the British Museum’s New Media Unit also illustrated and described in the book The Queen Of The Night by Dominique Collon. Height: 49.5 cm Current location: Room 56, British Museum Polychrome reconstruction: Collon, Dominique, The Queen of the Night, British Museum objects in focus, London, BMP, 2005.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License