Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age
reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world
by Stephanie Lynn Budin
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"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"--
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Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age: reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world
2011, Cambridge University Press
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0521193044 9780521193047
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-378) and index.
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