Pregnant Female Figurine
7000 BC
Clay
Sarab
3.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 4.5 cm
A66160
Clay
Sarab
3.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 4.5 cm
A66160
Oriental Institute Museum
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.