Model the subject into thin metal sheet with raised and recessed relief, with hammer marks and chased lines kept, highlights controlled, never smooth chrome, like a gold Mesopotamian plaque. Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war, standing upright on the back of a lion as a regal woman in a layered flounced robe with a horned crown, wings rising from her shoulders and a quiver of arrows crossed behind her, one hand holding a ring and rod, an eight-pointed star above her head, centred in the square.
Light: a warm lamp glow from the front on the chased gold edges of the crown, wings, robe flounces and the eight-pointed star as bright highlights along the hammer marks while recesses fall into deep copper and black; palette of gold, copper, lapis-blue enamel accents and umber; ornate, solemn, polished.
Square 1:1 frame, centred composition with breathing room on all sides. A dignified, respectful depiction following Mesopotamian iconography; no readable cuneiform, inscriptions, letters or logos anywhere, only plain decorative bands.
