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Female Figurines from the Mut Precinct: Context and Ritual Function [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This study concerns the ceramic female figurines excavated by Johns Hopkins at the Precinct of Mut in Luxor, Egypt between 2001 and 2004. The figurines date from the New Kingdom to the Late Period (ca. 1550-332 BCE). Ceramic figurines are frequently overlooked by archaeologists, art historians, and social historians because they lack the aesthetic ...
Waraksa, Elizabeth A
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Prehistoric Figurines in Sudan

open access: yes, 2017
The chapter presents a descriptive account of Neolithic site inventories containing figurines in the Sudan Nile Valley. Cattle figurines indicate that animal husbandry played an important role in economic life as well as in political and ritual contexts.
Randi Haaland
exaly   +2 more sources

Obesity in the Neolithic Era: A Greek Female Figurine

Obesity Surgery, 2006
In this paper, we present a female figurine made of clay, found in Farsala, Thessaly, Greece, and which is housed in the Athanassakeion Archaeological Museum of Volos, Greece. This Neolithic figurine has visible characteristics of female obesity and belongs to a class of figurines ironically named "Venuses".
Helen, Christopoulou-Aletra   +2 more
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