A small statue of a nursing mother
This statue is a symbol of motherhood and is a symbol of the civilizations of Mesopotamia
The statue dates back to the seventh century BC, and shows a Babylonian mother breastfeeding her baby.
The statue was placed in the home as a talisman to prevent the family from harm.
This model shows the daily life of thousands of women in Babylon.
It seems that the role of the mother in the Sumerian civilization had a great interest in raising Sumerian society and reflects the phenomenon of family cohesion in ancient Sumer and the extent of children’s respect for their families.
There is a Sumerian tablet in which a citizen of Sumer talks about his mother and describes her in a creative language, and in these words Lu-Digera describes his mother.
My mother is like a shining light in the sky
A doe in the rolling hills
The morning star shines even in the evening time
Precious red agate
It is topaz from Marakhshi
It is jewelry filled with beauty
It is a cylinder seal made of yoke stone
She is an ornament like the sun
It is a tin bracelet
It is a mass of shiny gold and silver
It is an alabaster statue of a protector goddess standing on a base of lapis lazuli
It is a scepter of shiny ivory
Source :
(Writing on Clay) by Edward Keira, translated by Mahmoud Hussein Al-Amin from Dar Al-Mutanabbi Library, Baghdad 1964