15,557
回編集
差分
ナビゲーションに移動
検索に移動
→イコノグラフィー
== イコノグラフィー ==
===Symbolsシンボル ==={{multiple image | direction = vertical | width = 200 | header = | footer = | image1 = Kudurru Melishipak Louvre Sb23 n02.jpg | alt1 = | width1 = | caption1 = The eight-pointed star was Inanna/Ishtar's most common symbol.{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|pp=156, 169–170}}{{sfn|Liungman|2004|page=228}} Here it is shown alongside the [[solar symbol|solar disk]] of her brother [[Shamash]] (Sumerian Utu) and the [[crescent|crescent moon]] of her father [[Sin (mythology)|Sin]] (Sumerian Nanna) on a [[kudurru|boundary stone]] of [[Meli-Shipak II]], dating to the twelfth century BCE. | image2 = Pergamon Museum Berlin 2007112.jpg | alt2 = | width2 = 200 | caption2 = Lions were one of Inanna/Ishtar's primary symbols.{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=118}}{{sfn|Collins|1994|pages=113–114}} The lion above comes from the [[Ishtar Gate]], the eighth gate to the inner city of [[Babylon]], which was constructed in around 575 BCE under the orders of [[Nebuchadnezzar II]].{{sfn|Kleiner|2005|page=49}}}}
Inanna/Ishtar's most common symbol was the eight-pointed star,{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|pp=156, 169–170}} though the exact number of points sometimes varies.{{sfn|Liungman|2004|page=228}} Six-pointed stars also occur frequently, but their symbolic meaning is unknown.{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=170}} The eight-pointed star seems to have originally borne a general association with the heavens,{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|pages=169–170}} but, by the [[First Babylonian dynasty|Old Babylonian Period]] ({{circa}} 1830 – {{circa}} 1531 BCE), it had come to be specifically associated with the planet [[Venus]], with which Ishtar was identified.{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|pages=169–170}} Starting during this same period, the star of Ishtar was normally enclosed within a circular disc.{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=170}} During later Babylonian times, slaves who worked in Ishtar's temples were sometimes branded with the seal of the eight-pointed star.{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=170}}{{sfn|Nemet-Nejat|1998|pages=193–194}} On [[kudurru|boundary stones]] and [[cylinder seals]], the eight-pointed star is sometimes shown alongside the [[crescent|crescent moon]], which was the symbol of [[Sin (mythology)|Sin]] (Sumerian Nanna) and the rayed [[solar symbol|solar disk]], which was a symbol of [[Shamash]] (Sumerian Utu).{{sfn|Liungman|2004|page=228}}
