The arrival of the Queen of the Night. Stage set for Mozart’s The Magic Flute, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) for an 1815 production. CC BY-NC-SA Kupferstichkabinett der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
See other crescents. Which also recall the ship of heavens.
The Queen of the Night Scene still from Amadeus, directed by Miloš Forman. © Copyright 2002 - Warner Brothers.
The Queen of the Night Scene still from Amadeus, directed by Miloš Forman. © Copyright 2002 - Warner Brothers.
Plate. Persian, Sasanian, A.D. 225–630
Dimensions: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)
Medium or Technique: Silver-gilt
Curved sides. Thick, high foot. Inside carved in relief and gilded with designs showing the Moon-god, Mah, within a crescent moon, seated above the caonopy mounted on the chariot drawn by four zebus with two driers. Mah is enthroned like a Sassanian king with ceremonial axe, spear and cushions. The figure below is possibly Tishtrya, the first aspect of the constellation, as a young man. below Tishtrya is the tree of life. © The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Dimensions: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)
Medium or Technique: Silver-gilt
Curved sides. Thick, high foot. Inside carved in relief and gilded with designs showing the Moon-god, Mah, within a crescent moon, seated above the caonopy mounted on the chariot drawn by four zebus with two driers. Mah is enthroned like a Sassanian king with ceremonial axe, spear and cushions. The figure below is possibly Tishtrya, the first aspect of the constellation, as a young man. below Tishtrya is the tree of life. © The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Reconstruction of the Summerian Stele of Ur-Nammu. From Legrain, L. Restauration de la stèle d'Ur-Nammu, Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 1933, 30, 111-115 (article here). The stele is from ca. 2097-2080 BCE, recovered by the British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1926. Fragments are in University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
A priest in prayer before the symbols for Marduk, chief god of Babylon, and Nabu, god of wisdom and writing. Neo-Babylonian 7th-6th BCE Round seal, blue glazed clay, 4,5 cm across. AO 5684. Louvre, Departement des Antiquites Orientales, Paris, France. © Erich Lessing.
This stele comes from the Tophet in Carthage (today Tunisia)
Such grave markers were set up over burial urns for small children and animals which had been sacrificed to the goddess Tanit and her consort Baal Hammon.Canaanite symbolism: sun,crescent moon and triangle; the goddess below. ANE 125117. © lessing-photo.com
Boats and ships. From Shaman's drum symbols in Scandinavia.
