Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age : reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world / Stephanie Lynn Budin.
2011
GN778.25 .B83 2011 (Mapit)
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Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age : reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world / Stephanie Lynn Budin.
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ISBN
9780521193047
0521193044
0521193044
Publication Details
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011.
Language
English
Description
x, 384 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Call Number
GN778.25 .B83 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
930.1/5
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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