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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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“Little women”: Gender, performance, and gesture in Mycenaean female figurines [PDF]
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’
Steel, Louise
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The Forgotten Female Figurines of Elephantine [PDF]
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2018 Abstract In spite of renewed scholarly interest in the religion of Judeans living on the island of Elephantine during the Persian period, only one recent study has addressed the religious significance of the fired clay female figurines discovered there. The present article seeks to place these objects back on the research agenda.
Collin Cornell
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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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Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context [PDF]
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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Southern African Field ArchaeologyClay female figurines recovered from central and northern Sudan suggest there are cultural similarities between the Neolithic (5000-2800 BC) and Meroitic periods (400 BC-AD 350).
Ammar Abdalla
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The Position of Women in Prehistoric times, a Study of the Figurines in Hajilar [PDF]
زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2010 This article aims at analyzing the figurines of Hajilar located in Central Anatolia. It specifically analyzes the female figurines found in level VI of Hajilar related to the Neolithic culture. Apart from that, some theories regarding different functions
Bahman Firozmandi, Mandan Kazazi
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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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Female Figurines from the Mut Precinct: Context and Ritual Function [PDF]
, 2017 [Author's note: A lightly edited version of this dissertation was published in 2009 as Female Figurines from the Mut Precinct: Context and Ritual Function. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 240. Fribourg: Academic Press/Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Elizabeth A. Waraksa
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Female Figurines (Pharaonic Period) [PDF]
, 2008 Figurines of nude females are known from most periods of Pharaonic Egyptian history and occur in a variety of contexts. Female figurines were fashioned from clay, faience, ivory, stone, and wood. A generic Egyptian term for “female figurine” is rpyt; terms specifically for clay figurines include sjn (n Ast), rpyt nt sjnt, and rpyt Ast.
Waraksa, Elizabeth, Waraksa, Elizabeth,
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