E la dea divenne madre… Una figurina di gestante dall’insediamento neolitico di San Giovanni a Terralba (OR)
Carlo Lugliè
Primo
2021-01-01
Abstract
Several Late to Final Neolithic female figurines largely spread in Sardinia bear some formal and stylistic characteristics which gave rise to many remarks as well as proposals of classification and chronological seriation. Aside from each context and place of reference, this category of symbolic expression among Neolithic communities is generally considered to suggest the spread of a cult of fecundity and motherhood, roughly shaped from the archaeo-mythological concept of Marija Gimbutas’ Mother Goddess (1974). Yet, in the number of well-known figurines found in Sardinia, very few portray unambiguously pregnant female figures, to suggest the purported message of a patent motherhood. In this paper I present an unpublished specimen of this category coming from the open-air site of San Giovanni at Terralba, and briefly discuss some issue about the context, function and symbolic value of this type of anthropomorphic representation.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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