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Pallas, 2023 Terracotta figurines, being a mass-produced items made from a low-cost material, can provide information about popular worship and socio-cultural-religious contexts and practices. The project SUR.VI.V.E. (SURveying VIrtual Voids in Egyptian collections).
Clementina Caputo, Alessandro Mandelli
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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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Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2017 Fourteen hollow and one cast anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines produced in Incan times for ritual offerings from the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin were selected to investigate the technologies and alloys used for their fabrication with portable ...
Maria Filomena Guerra +3 more
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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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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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WHEEL-MADE TERRACOTTA AND HOLLOW BULL FIGURINES FROM THE KNIDOS TERRITORY
Journal of Ancient History and ArchaeologyTerracotta Bull Figurines are among the most significant finds from the 8th and 7th centuries BCE in the Knidos territory. Major centers where these figurines have been discovered include the Emecik Apollo Sanctuary, Knidos, Burgaz, and Kumyer.
Derviş Ozan TOZLUCA
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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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On two Terracotta Figurines [PDF]
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1895 Among the recent additions to the collection of terracotta figurines in the British Museum are two which I am permitted to publish by the kindness of Mr. A. S. Murray.The first (Fig. 1, Plate IV.) was found at Myrina in Asia Minor and represents a youthful winged male figure, leaning on a pillar and burning a butterfly over the flame of a small altar ...
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Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2015 Le colloque « Figurines féminines nues. Proche-Orient, Égypte, Nubie, Méditerranée, Asie centrale (Néolithique - iiie siècle apr. J.-C.). Approche contextuelle et comparative », organisé par Sylvie Donnat (UMR 7044-Archimède, université de Strasbourg ...
Sylvie Donnat
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, 2020 This book concerns figurines from cultures that have no direct links with each other. It explores the category of the figurine as a key material concept in the art history of antiquity through comparative juxtaposition of papers drawn from Chinese, pre-Columbian, and Greco-Roman culture.
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