Running head: COMPARING AND CONTRASTING FEMALE FIGURES FROM ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA AND CENTRAL AMERICA
Comparing and Contrasting Female Figures from Ancient Mesopotamia and Central America
Jose Limardo
March 31, 2007
The Female figurine from the Halaf period (6th millennium B.C.) shown here, (http://www.louvre.fr/media/repository/ressources/sources/illustration/atlas/image_65162_v2_m56577569830698503.jpg,) is a full-round, painted terracotta sculpture measuring 8.2 cm (3.2 in.) tall by 5 cm (2 in.) wide by 5.4 cm (2.13 in.) in depth. This symmetrical and smooth textured sculpture depicts a female sitting naked with her arms folded around her breasts. Her position is suggestive of childbirth (Louvre, 2007.) and brown stripes are painted on the body. The female's heads, hands and feet show no details however; her breasts, hips and thighs are exaggerated in size. According to the Louvre, these features suggests the representation of fertility in the form of a "mother......
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