Pregnant Female Figurine

7000 BC
Clay
Sarab
3.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 4.5 cm
A66160

Oriental Institute Museum

Artifact Description

Pregnant Female Figurine

This clay figurine shows part of a female torso. Many scholars believe that clay figurines such as this one were fertility figures and that they served a religious function.

Suggested Readings

Barber, Elizabeth Wayland. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994.

Roaf, Michael. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

Van Der Toorn, Karel. From Her Cradle to Her Grave. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.

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