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The Assyrian statue (British Museum number 124963) was originally set up in the temple of Ishtar in Nineveh (near the modern city of Mosul in northern Iraq). The statue remains the only known Assyrian statue of a naked woman. The inscription shows it was intended "for titillation" or "to be alluring", and may represent an attendant of Ishtar, or Ishtar herself in her role as the goddess of love. The statue was first dated by E. A. Wallis Budge as being c.1080 BCE.〔British Museum catalogue entry 〕 ==Description== This is a limestone carved statue of a woman. The statue is just smaller than life-size at high and wide at the shoulders and narrows to wide at the waist. There is a cuneiform inscription on the back of the statue which states that king Ashur-bel-kala erected it for the people. Most of the surface detail has been lost, but the details of the pubic hair remain visible and carefully carved. The statue was discovered and excavated by Hormuzd Rassam in 1853. It was found close to the Broken Obelisk () and "in the same ditch".〔 The statue is on permanent exhibition in the British Museum gallery 55, the Assyrian room, where it is simply labelled as "Limestone statue of a woman" and is dated as within the reign of Ashur-bel-kala. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Assyrian statue (BM 124963)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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