Essays on Figurine

Çatalhöyük, Turkey, is adopted by many new-age goddess worshipers as a place where early goddess-worshipping farmers lived in social organizations in which leadership was inherited through the female line, mother to daughter (Hodder n.p.). The reason for the claim was the fact that James Mellaart, an archaeologist, in the 1960s found a goddess figurine in a grain bin. It was strongly suggested by Ian Hodder that the so-called ‘Mother Goddess’ had something to do with fertility having been found in a grain bin. However, there have been no suggestions whether the grain bins ...

Question 1: Anthropology

Introduction The word “Paleolithic” means the “old stone age.” The late upper Paleolithic period began about 40,000 years ago, lasting through the Pleistocene ice age, which is believed to have ended around 8,000 B.C. Upper Paleolithic art was first discovered in Aurignac (Dordogne, France). Expert archeologist have documented that the geography of upper Paleolithic art spans through Eurasia and Siberia. Some of the notable characteristics of Paleolithic art include engraved limestone blocks, parietal art, human and animal figurines. For engraved blocks, characteristics include deep incisions, stiff outlines, sexual symbols represented realistically, animal heads, and dorsal quarters. ...

Gallery Report

Figurine of the Goddess Bastet as a Cat is among the most notable and creative piece of art that I found on my visit to LACMA in Los Angeles. The figurine is remarkably well preserved and because of this, there is a lot that can be talked about the figurine. The figurine, that belonged to ancient Egypt and was sculptured during 1081- 525 B.C, is made of bronze and inlaid gold. The 2 3/4 x 1 3/16 x 1 3/4 in. size cat is symbolic of the Egyptian cat goddess Bast, who, according to archeologists, was a very powerful goddess of the ...

The Mycenaean Phi Figurine dates from the late Hellenic period which is about the Twelfth Century BC and focuses principally on the figure of Pi. This is a terracotta figurine which was quite common in those times and is usually found in considerable quantity at several sites with a Mycenaean provenance. The figure usually has the female as its main subject and shows different aspects such as clothing in long garments, strangely shaped heads. The figures were usually based on three Greek letters that are Psi, Phi and Tau with the central one now concerning us. The figure seems to ...

Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, tells the story of Sam Spade’s investigation of a young woman’s disappearance which leads to him becoming embroiled in the real story: the acquisition of the mysterious ‘falcon’ figurine. The novel is widely considered to be the father of the hard-boiled detective novel – characterized largely by the impassive depiction of graphic scenes involving violence and sex. Hammett presents his readers with a number of characters – some good and some bad, although in the true style of the detective novel, their real personalities are often shrouded in ambiguity. Even Spade, as a clean-cut detective, presents ...

Living in a patriarchal world, the name "Venus" was first used in a tone of mocking irony but later became the collective term used to identify all obese Palaeolithic statuettes of women. The use of the name "Venus" leads to a comparison between her and other female statues and denies the figurine a chance to be analyzed by her own terms and free of the presumptions provoked by the name. There is no doubt that the statue is biological female. In the art world, the "Venus of Willendorf" is anything but unconventional. Unlike the Classical and Renaissance Venus's, which display a civilized and ...