Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age
Author | : Stephanie Lynn Budin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1391558412 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Download or read book Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age written by Stephanie Lynn Budin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 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"--