Showing posts with label Elam. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Fertility goddesses from Elam

Fertility Goddesses
Elamite period, Iran
circa 1500 - 1000 B.C.
made of clay.
They have elaborate headdress and costume. Each fertility goddess is holding bare breasts in cupped hands. Sizes vary from 5 and 1/2 inches to 6 inches high. The items were sold at Griffin Gallery Ancient Art in Florida, USA. A similar item is kept in Shush Museum in Iran [1]. Ancient Elam was a civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Provinces, as well as a small part of southern Iraq.
Sources: [1], [2]