TY  - BOOK
AU  - Budin,Stephanie Lynn
TI  - Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age: reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world 
SN  - 978-0-521-19304-7
U1  - 930.15 23E
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, New York, Melbourne [etc.]
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Bronze age / Mediterranean Region
KW  - Art, Prehistoric / Mediterranean Region
KW  - Sculpture, Prehistoric / Mediterranean Region
KW  - Figurines, Prehistoric / Mediterranean Region
KW  - Mother goddesses / Mediterranean Region
KW  - Mother and child in art
KW  - Mediterranean Region / Antiquities
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / General
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 349-378
N2  - "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 wtih 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"--
ER  -