Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük

Seated Mother Goddess, Çatal Hüyük, ca 6000 BC Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara.
Head and right arm is reconstructed.

Surroundings:

Location:

Türkiye, Çatalhöyük
geo:37.667076,32.827148
Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

-6000~ / unknown

Class:

Relief, votiv stone or altar
visible

Identifiers:

vici:place=22043

Annotations

The Neolithic backed-clay Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük dates back to the 6000 BC. It was unearthed by James Mellaart in 1961 ¹. It is generally regarded as Mother Goddess in the process of giving birth while seated on her throne.

See:

James Melaart, Çatal Hüyük, A Neolithic Town in Anatolia, London1967
Joan Marler and Harald Haarmann, The Goddess and the Bear Hybrid Imagery and Symbolism at Çatalhöyük, Journal of Archaeomythology 3, 1, 2007, pp. 48-79

References

↑James Melaart, Çatal Hüyük, A Neolithic Town in Anatolia, London1967

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