Images of woman and child from the Bronze age : reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world

Images of woman and child from the Bronze age reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world

"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-chi...

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1. Verfasser: Budin, Stephanie Lynn (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge u.a. Cambridge Univ. Press 2011
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Bronze age > Art, Prehistoric > Sculpture, Prehistoric > Figurines, Prehistoric > Mother goddesses > Mother and child in art > Mediterranean Region > Antiquities > Levante > Muttergottheit > Mutter > Geschichte 1800 v. Chr.-800 v. Chr.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 384 S.
Ill.
26 cm
ISBN:9780521193047
978-0-521-19304-7
0521193044
0-521-19304-4