The Wikipedia article "Burney Relief," describing the Old Babylonian terracotta plaque held at the British Museum under registration 2003,0718.1, dated 1800 to 1750 BCE, with a documented survey of the three competing scholarly identifications of its winged, taloned female figure: Ishtar (the most widely cited reading among independent scholars, argued by Thorkild Jacobsen from the lion and mountain imagery), Ereshkigal (the British Museum's own stated preferred reading, from the hanging wings and originally black background read as underworld imagery), and Lilitu (an early 1936 proposal now largely set aside by modern scholarship).
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burney_Relief
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This source names Ereshkigal directly: "from the lion and mountain imagery), Ereshkigal (the British Museum's own stated preferred reading, from the hanging wings and originally black background read as underworld imagery), and Lilitu (an..."
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This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 connected.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 connected.
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