Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age
| Author | : Stephanie Lynn Budin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2011-04-11 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780521193047 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0521193044 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (044 Downloads) |
Download or read book Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age written by Stephanie Lynn Budin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 with 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"--Provided by publisher.
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