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Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age - 9780521193047

Un libro in lingua di Budin Stephanie Lynn edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2011

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"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"--

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