The Magic in the Image : Women in Clay at Mohenjodaro and Harappa /
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Hundreds of clay figurines of women, and their fragments, were found in the remains of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, major cities of the Indus civilization, but almost none in the other Harappan towns or villages. What could be the explanation? This study begins with the background: the archaeological history, various studies of figurines, and how they came to be linked with the idea of the mother goddess. There is also an attempt to draw a general picture of popular religion of the time, and to detect archaeological traces of Harappan beliefs and religious practices. There follows an analysis of the figurines themselves: what were their antecedents? Do the few male clay figurines fall in the same genre as the plentiful remains of women's images? There were youthful women, mothers, portly matrons, and also women at the grinding stone, but nothing that could be a representation of 'womanhood'. Attention is paid to the variation in headgear, hairstyles, ornamentation, and the all-pervasive hip-girdles. Nudity is also a topic of discussion. Besides, they cannot be stood upright. As for their distribution, it was significantly irregular. Although attempts to replicate the firing of these solid objects using simple methods failed, it is doubtful to what extent they were made by skilled potters, the modelling being unpractised and even clumsy, as the photographs of some profiles, published here for the first time, shows.
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1 online resource (444 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004753242
Terres cuites et culte domestique : bestiaire de l'Égypte gréco-romaine /
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In Terracotta and domestic worship. Bestiary of the Graeco-Roman Egypt , Celine Boutantin proposes a new approach of terracotta produced in Egypt in the Greco-Roman period. A study taking into account the archaeological contexts allows to propose a synthesis of production workshops and to show, in some cases, an adaptation of the production of local cults. An inventory of figurines found in homes, temples and tombs allow to study the functions of these objects. Through the study of a particular theme, animal terracottas, the author raises questions about beliefs and personal or private practices. Dans Terres cuites et culte domestique. Bestiaire de l'Égypte gréco-romaine , Céline Boutantin propose une nouvelle approche des figurines en terre cuite produites en Égypte à l'époque gréco-romaine. Une étude prenant en compte les contextes archéologiques permet de dresser un bilan des ateliers de production et de montrer, dans certains cas, une adaptation de la production à des cultes locaux. Elle permet aussi de dresser un inventaire des figurines trouvées dans les maisons, les sanctuaires et les tombes et de proposer une synthèse sur les fonctions de ces objets. A travers l'étude d'un thème particulier, les représentations animales, l'auteur aborde sous un angle nouveau la question des croyances et des pratiques personnelles ou privées.
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1 online resource (xii, 642 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 606-626) and index. :
9789004263246 :
0927-7633 ; :
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Tanagras : figurines for life and eternity : the Musée du Louvre's collection of Greek figurines /
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Exhibition held at Centro Cultural Bancaja, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, March 29-July 67, 2010.
"Exhibition organized by the Musée du Louvre and Fundación Bancaja."--T.p. verso. :
299 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) :
9788484711711
8484711714
Small bronze sculpture from the ancient world : papers delivered at a symposium /
: "Papers delivered at a symposium organized by the department of antiquities and atiquities conservation and held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, March 16-19,1989". : 284 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 089236176x
Griechisch-ägyptisch : Tonfiguren vom Nil /
: Catalog of an exhibition held at Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität Würzburg, Antikensammlung, Würzburg, October 16, 2013 - July 27, 2014. : 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223). : 9783795427788