Images of Woman and Child From the Bronze Age - Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World

"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 ofEgypt to giving extra oomph to magical spells"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Egypt; 3. The Levant and Anatolia; 4. Mesopotamia and Iran; 5. Cyprus; 6. Aegean; 7. Conclusions.

About the author

Stephanie Lynn Budin teaches at Rutgers University, Camden. She is the author of The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (Cambridge, 2008) and numerous articles on ancient religion and iconography.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Lynn Budin, Budin Stephanie Lynn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.04.2014
• EAN: 9781107660328
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66032-8
• No. of pages: 396
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Prehistoric archaeology