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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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Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares +5 more
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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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Significances of Regeneration through Upraised Arms Gestures in Cosmic and Funerary Contexts [PDF]
Journal of Tourism, Hotels and Heritage, 2022 Raising up arms was one of significant gestures known by the Egyptians. One method of expressing regeneration was through lifting up arms. Different elevated arms gestures were employed in regenerative purposes in cosmic and funerary contexts.
Youmna Nasr
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TÜRKİYE BİLİMLER AKADEMİSİ ARKEOLOJİ DERGİSİ, 2019 Batı Anadolu’da birçok yerleşimde Miken seramiği bulunmuş olmasına karşın Miken kadın figürinleri aynı oranda ele geçmemektedir. Ticari ilişkilerin kanıtı olabilecek seramiğin ele geçmesine karşın birçok yerleşimde figürinlerin varlığı ile ...
Gür, Barış
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A Palm as a Measure – Nikola Smilkov’s Figurines [PDF]
, 2023 The extraordinary tactility of figurines that can almost fit into the palm of one hand, their dimensions and the subtle processing of stone in the latest cycle of Nikola Smilkov reveal the idea of something extremely subtle and fragile, preserved as ...
Smilkov, Nikola
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Venüs Heykelciklerinden İdollere Kadın Temsilleri
Gazi Akademik Bakış, 2021 When we trace back to the past on the issue of women, the earliest evidence that archaeology encountered are the Venus figurines from the Upper Paleolithic Period. These artifacts, which have been discovered in a wide area from Europe to Siberian context,
Tülin CENGİZ
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Les curieuses oreilles de quelques figurines des Salines de Kition
Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, 2021 In the impressive amount of terracottas found in the sanctuary of the Salines at Kition, which were recently studied by Pauline Maillard, some heads and bodies belonging to the same female figurines stand out, from a stylistic point of view, from the ...
Antoine Hermary
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