A rather uneventful train journey spent reading the stuff I picked up at the British Museum. Spent the second half of the journey wishing I'd remembered to charge my mp3 player.
It turns out that the Queen of the Night is probably Ishtar's (Inanna's) sister, Erishkigal - Queen of the Underworld (Irkalla), whose main temple was 25km from Babylon.
This is a shame because even though the underworld and shit is pretty goth; I liked the idea that a 3000/4000 year old brothel had been found! (Ishtar is the goddess of sexual love, war and fertility - which tells us a lot about the Mesopotamian mentality I think you'll agree...)
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