The Burney Relief is an unusual elaborate and relatively large ( 20 x 15 inches ) terracotta plaque of a naked winged goddess with the feet of a bird of prey, and attendant owls and lions.

Old Babylonian period Burney Relief | Queen of Night relief, often considered to represent an aspect of Ishtar.

Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003 .</ ref > The Burney Relief is an outstanding terracotta plaque from Ancient Mesopotamia of about 1950 BC.

* Queen of the Night Relief, formerly known as the Burney Relief, a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in the British Museum, who adopted the new name in 2003

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The Burney Relief ( also known as the Queen of the Night relief ) is a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in high relief of the Isin-Larsa-or Old-Babylonian period, depicting a winged, nude, goddess-like figure with bird's talons, flanked by owls, and perched upon supine lions.

However the Museum declined to purchase it in 1935, whereupon the plaque passed to the London antique dealer Sidney Burney ; it subsequently became known as the " Burney Relief ".

In this respect the Burney Relief shows a clear departure from the schematic style of the worshiping men and women that were found in temples from periods about 500 years earlier ( see image ).

It appears though that the Burney Relief was the product of such a tradition, not its source, since its composition is unique.

H. Frankfort suggests that The Burney Relief shows a modification of the normal canon that is due to the lions being turned towards a worshipper: they might appear inappropriately threatening if their mouths were open.

Today, the identification of the Burney Relief with Lilith is questioned, and figure is now generally identified as the goddess of love and war.

*" British Museum collection database " Queen of the Night / Burney Relief website page, accessed June 26, 2010

Edith Porada, the first to propose this identification, associates hanging wings with demons and then states: " If the suggested provenience of the Burney relief at Nippur proves to be correct, the imposing demonic figure depicted on it may have to be identified with the female ruler of the dead or with some other major figure of the Old Babylonian pantheon which was occasionally associated with death.

Charles Burney by Joshua Reynolds | Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1781

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However, some exteriors were done around Skywalker Ranch and on location at Burney Falls, near Mount Shasta.

Like many of his generation at PHS, Burney came up through the ranks of then-Surgeon General Thomas Parran, Jr .’ s venereal disease control programs, receiving specialized training at the New York Marine Hospital ( 1934 ) and assisting in the management of rapid treatment centers around the country.

* February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated Donner Party.

Anthon H. Lund, a First Counselor in the First Presidency, drank beer and wine ; Apostle Matthias F. Cowley drank beer and wine ; Charles W. Penrose, who also served as a First Counselor in the First Presidency, drank wine ; Relief Society president Emmeline B.

On 25 November the First Battalion was relieved from duty with the China Relief Expedition and on 28 November arrived at Tongku.

The idea for the center dates back to 1933 when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt discussed ideas for the Emergency Relief and Civil Works Administration to create employment for unemployed actors during the Great Depression.

During the First World War, he was the 1st Vice-Chairman, and later Chairman, of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Relief Society for helping victims of the war.

Since April 2012, the General Relief Society Presidency has been composed of Linda Burton, President ; Carole M. Stephens, First Counselor ; and Linda S. Reeves, Second Counselor.

On November 7, 1943, Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a rare broadcast performance of the First Symphony ; although the performance was recorded, it was never commercially released by RCA Victor, but has recently appeared on Relief CR 1886 ( anon.

During the First World War, Wilson served on the Commission for Relief in Belgium and, in 1915, accepted the chairmanship of the Indiana State Chapter of the League to Enforce Peace, a position he held until his resignation over US involvement in the League of Nations after the close of the war.

This became known as ' The First Relief of Lucknow ', as this force was not strong enough to break the siege or extricate themselves, and so was forced to join the garrison.

Fahnestock executed the First Cases of Mesmeric Pain Relief for Obstetrics in America.

* First Relief Pitcher: Jerry DiPoto ( Mets ), 6th inning

During the period of the First World War from 1914 to 1918, Oldway Mansion was transformed into the American Women ’ s War Relief Hospital.

Typically, the order is: First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve, the Quorums of Seventy, Melchizedek priesthood holders, Aaronic priesthood holders, Relief Society members, members of the Young Women organization, and then all members together.

As a naval cadet member of the multinational landing force that came to be known as the Seymour Relief Expedition Taussig served alongside and began a long and fraternal professional association with Royal Navy officers Captain John Jellicoe and Lieutenant David Beatty who later advanced to First Sea Lords of the Royal Navy.

The two teams first faced each other as " north London " clubs ( although Tottenham was technically in Middlesex until incorporated into Greater London in 1965 ) in a War Relief Fund friendly on August 22, 1914 at White Hart Lane ; although Arsenal were in the Second Division and Tottenham in the First, Arsenal won 5 – 1.

* co-authored, " The First Amendment in Bold Relief: A Reply ," 68 Texas Law Review 1087 ( 1990 )

Ancient Babylonian Santur Drawing of Relief

Image: Karnak Amasis. jpg | Relief showing Amasis from the Karnak temple

File: BM ; RM6-ANE, Assyrian Sculpture 32-East ( N ), Centre Island + North Wall-~ Assyrian Empire +-Lamassu, Stela's, Statue's, Obelisk's, Relief Panel's ) & Full Projection. 1. JPG | The British Museum, Room 6-Assyrian Sculpture

Relief map Sierra Nevada ( Spain ) | Sierra Nevada

At its peak, Hoover's American Relief Administration | ARA fed 10. 5 million people daily.

Relief, now in National Archaeological Museum of Athens | Athens, showing Dionysus with actresses ( possibly from The Bacchae ) carrying masks and drums.

This copy of a Relief # Bas-relief or low relief | bas relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal ( 669 – 631 BC ) at Nineveh shows a luxurious garden watered by an aqueduct.

File: Antinous Dionysos Terme. jpg | Relief, as Sylvanus, National Museum of Rome

Relief of Ariadne ( empress ) | Ariadne, elder daughter of Emperor Leo I ( emperor ) | Leo I and wife of Zeno.

Cartographic relief depiction | Relief map of Savoy.

Image: WLA brooklynmuseum sandstone Nefertiti. jpg | Relief fragment with Nefertiti, Brooklyn Museum.

Image: WLA brooklynmuseum Relief of Nefertiti Kissing one of her daughters. jpg | Limestone relief of Nefertiti kissing one of her daughters, Brooklyn Museum.

Egyptian hieroglyphs typical of the Graeco-Roman period, sculpted in Relief. Glyphs: Owl ( hieroglyph ) | owl, Viper ( hieroglyph ) | viper, 3-strokes ( plural ), Bread bun ( hieroglyph ) | ' bread bun ', Folded cloth ( s hieroglyph ) | cloth

File: Museo Nazionale Napoli Gabinetto Segreto Relief From Pompeji. jpg | Marble bas-relief

File: Relief sacrifice Glyptothek Munich. jpg | Ritual vessel supported on a tripod ( Roman relief 1st-century AD )

File: Relief of Medea and the Peliades in Berlin. jpg | Medea and the Peliades around a tripod ( 1828 relief after a 5th-century BC Greek original )

Relief panel from an altar to Venus ( mythology ) | Venus and Mars ( mythology ) | Mars depicting Romulus and Remus suckling the she-wolf, and gods representing Roman topography such as the Tiber river and Palatine Hill

File: 058 Conrad Cichorius, Die Reliefs der Traianssäule, Tafel LVIII ( Ausschnitt 01 ). jpg | Relief with wind lantern on an ancient Roman galley

Bulla depicts the Victorian Relief Expedition in armed conflict with Shire of Bulloo | Bulloo Aborigines.