A Terracotta Pendant from Kalavassos-Ayious
A terracotta pendant of the Chalcolithic period found at Kalavassos-Ayious was published as representing a fish. On one of its flat sides it is decorated with an engraved herringbone motif. An attempt is made to demonstrate that this pendant and other similar ones in clay and stone from Cyprus may r...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1991
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 1991, Volume: 282/283, Pages: 163-166 |
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| Summary: | A terracotta pendant of the Chalcolithic period found at Kalavassos-Ayious was published as representing a fish. On one of its flat sides it is decorated with an engraved herringbone motif. An attempt is made to demonstrate that this pendant and other similar ones in clay and stone from Cyprus may represent the female vulva. Such representations are not unknown in the prehistoric art of the Levant and other regions and are in complete accord with the predominant role played by symbols of fertility from the Neolithic to the Chalcolithic periods and the "universality" of the "ideology" of fertility. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1357269 |