Description: An ancient old Babylonian terracotta plaque depicting the nude female goddess Ishtar, standing with her hands clasped across her abdomen. She wears a necklace and a bracelet on her left wrist. Presented in methacrylathe holder. Ishtar was the most important female deity in ancient Mesopotamia. She was seen as a violent and lustful goddess and her realms included both war and sexual love. |Babylonian - 2000-1700 B.C