Iconography

ERANOS ARCHIVE

87-103. The Great Mother / 95. Babylonia, Phoenicia, Cyprus

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Sorcery and magic / Magical devices / Fertility figurines

PRE-CLASSICAL ICONOGRAPHY

Western Asia / Conception and pregnancy / Fertility figurines

Further details

Artist or creator

Mesopotamian and
Susa

Date

2400 BC - 2300 BC

Location

Paris, Musée du Louvre

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

Bibliographic Citation

Christian Zervos, L'art de la Mésopotamie de la fin du quatrième millénaire au XVe siècle avant notre ère, Paris 1935, fig. p. 174

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Web resources

Musée du Louvre (figure at left, from Susa)

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