An edition of Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age (2011)
Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age
reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world
By Stephanie Lynn Budin
Publish Date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
eng
Pages
384
Description:
"This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean, focusing on Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Cyprus, and the Aegean. Rather than being a universal symbol of maternity, or a depiction of a mother goddess, the woman-and-child motif, called by the technical name kourotrophos, was relatively rare in comparison wtih other images of women in antiquity, and served a number of different symbolic functions, ranging from honoring the king of Egypt to giving extra oomph to magical spells"--