Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age
Subtitle: reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world
By: Stephanie Lynn Budin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521193047
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Prehistoric Art; HISTORY / Ancient / General; Bronze age; Antiquities; Prehistoric Figurines; Prehistoric Sculpture; Mother goddesses; Mediterranean Region; Mother and child in art
Description: "This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean, focusing on Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Cyprus, and the Aegean. Rather than being a universal symbol of maternity, or a depiction of a mother goddess, the woman-and-child motif, called by the technical name kourotrophos, was relatively rare in comparison wtih other images of women in antiquity, and served a number of different symbolic functions, ranging from honoring the king of Egypt to giving extra oomph to magical spells"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-378) and index.