File:Ishtar vase Louvre AO17000.jpg
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Object
| English: So-called Ishtar Vase
Français : Vase d'Ishtar (   ) |
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| Title |
English: So-called Ishtar Vase
Français : Vase d'Ishtar |
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| Description |
English: Naked Ishtar wearing the horned tiara, surrounded by birds, fish, a bull and a tortoise.
Français : Ishtar nue, coiffée de la tiare à cornes, entourée par des oiseaux, des poissons, un taureau et une tortue. |
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| Date |
between circa 1999 and circa 1599 BC date QS:P571,-1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,-1999-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,-1599-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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| Medium |
terracotta medium QS:P186,Q60424 ; painted decoration and incised decoration |
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| Dimensions |
height: 26.2 cm (10.3 in); diameter: 13 cm (5.1 in) dimensions QS:P2048,26.2U174728 dimensions QS:P2386,13U174728 |
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| Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q19675 |
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| Current location |
Mésopotamie, room 3: Mésopotamie, IIe millénaire avant J.-C.. Richelieu, ground floor. This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Near Eastern Antiquities). |
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| Accession number |
AO 17000  |
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| Credit line |
1933: excavated by André Parrot. Place: Larsa. |
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| References | Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 24753 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Photograph
| DescriptionIshtar vase Louvre AO17000.jpg |
English: The "Ishtar Vase"; terracotta vase incised with nude figure of goddess Ishtar, wearing a horned tiara and surrounded by her symbolic birds, fish, bull, and tortoise. Early 2nd millennium BCE, Larsa, Sumer (present-day Iraq). Louvre, Paris (AO 170) |
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| Source | Own work |
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| Attribution (required by the license) InfoField | © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / |
InfoField | © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:   This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.
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The "Ishtar Vase"; terracotta vase incised with nude figure of goddess Ishtar, wearing a horned tiara and surrounded by her symbolic birds, fish, bull, and tortoise. Early 2nd millennium BCE, Larsa, Sumer (present-day Iraq). Louvre, Paris (AO 170)
Il "Vaso di Ištar"; un vaso di terracotta che raffigura la dea mesopotamica Ištar, la quale indossa una tiara cornuta ed è circondata da vari animali che la simboleggiano. Costruito all'inizio del 2° millennio a.C., Larsa, Iraq. Louvre, Parigi.
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