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Applied SciencesTang Dynasty female terracotta figurines, as important relics of ceramics art, have commonly suffered from natural and man-made damages, among which facial damage is severe.
Qiangqiang Fan +3 more
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ReligionsMuch attention has been paid to female, pillar-based figurines from Iron II Judah, and the veneration of a major goddess in that territory. Similarly, female figurines throughout the Levant have largely been treated as evidence of goddess-worship, writ ...
Erin Darby
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Female Figurines of the Kostenki Type: Style and Image
Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University Geoarchaeology Ethnology and Anthropology Series, 2022 The paper considers 15 figurines from the Kostenki 1, Avdeevo, Gagarino, and Willendorf sites. For comparison, representations of two modern female figures are employed. In eight cases, we used copies of the statuettes (collection St Petersburg State University) for interpretation of the measurements.
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On the Authenticity of Two Presumed Paleolithic Female Figurines from the Art Market
HeritageIn March 2022, an auction house in Zurich sold two female figurines made from mammoth ivory, along with other prehistoric artefacts. This is a rare occurrence because the scarcity and value of Paleolithic figurines have limited their presence in the ...
Sibylle Wolf +3 more
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“Little women”: Gender, performance, and gesture in Mycenaean female figurines
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020 Abstract This paper examines Mycenaean female figurines, focusing on their gesture, posture, and dress as evidence for somatic messages of Mycenaean female personhood and identity and what this might tell us about women’s lives in Late Bronze Age Greece. The primary focus is on the corporeal messages encoded in the figurines, with reference to Butler’
Louise Steel
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Who’s Afraid of the Goddess? Leopard’s Tale, Menopausal Syndrome: Terms of Debate within Archaeology
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2022 This article presents an insight into archaeological disputes around female Neolithic figurines, starting with a historical overview of main academic interpretations of the figurines.
Arianna Carta
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Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context
Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2022 The volume deals with the iconography, typology, and find context of female, male, animal, and furniture figurines and discusses their production, appearance, and provenance, including their identification and religious functions.
Erin D. Darby, Izaak J. de Hulster
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Déesses gravides et déesses mères dans les cultes de Kition
Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, 2021 This paper aims to investigate the context of the terracotta figurines from Kition representing pregnant goddesses, some of which have large ears. It will be an opportunity to discuss the interaction between the figurines and the Phoenician dedications ...
Pauline Maillard
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Appropriating Canaanism: Ruth Patir’s Reanimation of Judean Pillar Figurines
Arts, 2022 This article addresses a body of works by the video artist Ruth Patir, in which Israeli womanhood in the 2020s is interrogated through Iron Age female statuettes, known as Judean Pillar Figurines.
Hava Aldouby
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The Naked Elamite Figurine: A Talisman to Facilitate Difficult Labor [PDF]
Journal of Research on History of Medicine, 2021 During the Elamite Middle Ages (around the mid-second millennium BC) in the city of Susa in Iran, the remnants of a naked young female figurine with a wide pelvic cavity which has kept its breasts with two hands have long left scholars to think about its
Maryam Navi, Reza Nouri Shadmahani
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