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Seated Mother Goddess, Çatal Hüyük, ca 6000 BCÇatalhöyük muralÇatalhöyük West SideÇatalhöyük West Side

Location:

  • Türkiye, Çatalhöyük
  • geo:37.667366,32.827705
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -5600~ / unknown

Class:

  • Find
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=41063

Annotations

See:

  1. Ali Umut Türkcan, Is it goddess or bear? The role of Çatalhöyük animal seals in Neolithic symbolism in: Documenta Praehistorica vol. XXXIV, 2007, pp. 257-266 - https://www.academia.edu/6041699
  2. 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

Nearby

Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük

Currently in Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

Çatalhöyük (Catal Hüyük) in Konya Province

Neolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia. Approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC


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