Editing Lilith (section)

=== The bird-footed woman in the Burney Relief ===
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[[File:Burney Relief Babylon -1800-1750.JPG|thumb|[[Burney Relief]], Babylon (1800–1750 BC)]]
Kramer's translation of the [[Gilgamesh]] fragment was used by [[Henri Frankfort]] (1937)<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=41680314|author=Frankfort, H. |title=The Burney Relief|journal=Archiv für Orientforschung|volume=12|pages= 128–135|year= 1937}}</ref> and [[Emil Kraeling]] (1937) to support identification of a woman with wings and bird-feet in the disputed [[Burney Relief]] as related to Lilith. Frankfort and Kraeling identified the figure in the relief with Lilith.<ref>{{Cite journal|jstor = 3218905|title = A Unique Babylonian Relief|last = Kraeling|first = Emil|date = 1937|journal = Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research|volume = 67|issue = 67|pages = 16–18|doi = 10.2307/3218905|s2cid = 164141131}}</ref> Today, the identification of the Burney Relief with Lilith is questioned.<ref>Lowell K. Handy article Lilith Anchor Bible Dictionary</ref> Modern research has [[w:Burney Relief#Identification|identified]] the figure as one of the main goddesses of the Mesopotamian pantheons, most probably [[Ereshkigal]].<ref>{{Cite journal|jstor = 20064325|title = The "Queen of the Night" Plaque: A Revisit|last = Albenda|first = Pauline|date = 2005|journal = Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume = 125|issue = 2|pages = 171–190}}</ref> But the figure is more generally identified as the goddess of love and war:<ref>Bible Review Vol 17 Biblical Archaeology Society – 2001</ref> [[Thorkild Jacobsen]] identified the figure as [[Inanna]] in an analysis based on the existence of symbols and attributes commonly recognized to the goddess and on textual evidence.<ref>Jacobsen, Thorkild (1987). "Pictures and pictorial language (the Burney Relief)". In Mindlin, M.; Geller, M.J.; Wansbrough, J.E. (eds.). Figurative Language in the Ancient Near East. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. pp. 1–11. ISBN 0-7286-0141-9.</ref>