A Google Arts and Culture partner page for "The Queen of the Night," reproducing the British Museum's own published catalogue text for registration 2003,0718.1, giving the Old Babylonian date, fired clay material, dimensions of 49.5 by 37 by 4.8 centimeters, a description of the winged, taloned, horned figure standing on lions and flanked by owls, and the museum's own stated position that the goddess "cannot be definitely identified" but naming Ishtar or her underworld sister and rival Ereshkigal as the two candidates it puts forward. The museum acquired the plaque in 2003 as a principal purchase marking its 250th anniversary.
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The holding museum's own published catalogue text for the object, distributed through a Google Arts and Culture partner page, giving registration number, date, material, dimensions and the museum's own stated position on the disputed identification, independently corroborated by the Wikipedia article's account of the same dispute. Citation
PublisherGoogle Arts and Culture, British Museum partner content
URLhttps://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-queen-of-the-night/eQEfwhChzs0z6A
Source TypeMuseum
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This source names Ereshkigal directly: "or her underworld sister and rival Ereshkigal as the two candidates it puts forward."
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 2 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 connected, 1 general references.
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