A Stone Metaphor Of Creation

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dc.creatorSchmandt-Besserat, Denise
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-31T19:41:14Z
dc.date.available2019-12-31T19:41:14Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description‘Ain Ghazal is a Neolithic site located near Amman, Jordan. It was excavated between 1982 and 1998 by an American-Jordanian team directed by Gary O. Rollefson, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wa. and Zeidan Kafafi, the University of Yarmouk at Irbid, Jordan. ‘Ain Ghazal was first settled about 7250 B.C., during the so-called Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period. In a matter of a few centuries the village of stone houses had spread over 30 acres along the Zarqa River. During a prosperous period when the mixed economy increasingly relied on farming, ca. 7250-6000 B.C., ‘Ain Ghazal witnessed what can be termed an explosion of symbolism. The site was abandoned in the Yarmoukian period ca. 5000 BC. The volume deals with the uniquely rich and varied ‘Ain Ghazal assemblage of symbols including tokens of many shapes, animal and human figurines, modeled human skulls, plaster statues and, mural and floor paintings.en_US
dc.description.abstractA unique stone statuette, 14 cm high, glorifies pregnancy. The sophisticated geometric composition of the sculpture, based on triangular and circular arrangements, exalts a woman and her bulging stomach, while the material, a pink limestone, celebrates her nudity. The statuette was found in situ, face down, at the end of a stone path, where it might have been displayed for worship in a small shrine of perishable material. The context in which the statuette was recovered suggests that, like their Broen_US
dc.description.departmentArt and Art Historyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/78826
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5881
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherEx Oriente
dc.relation.ispartofUT Faculty/Researcher Worksen_US
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectstone sculpture in the rounden_US
dc.subjectfemaleen_US
dc.subjectpregnancyen_US
dc.subjectdeityen_US
dc.subjectworshipen_US
dc.titleA Stone Metaphor Of Creationen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US

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