DEA MADRE
MOTHER GODDESS
DATE: III millennium B.C.
MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE: pinkish purified clay, hand modelled incision decoration.
Vase modeled as a stylized female divinity and steatopygia with small head, face reduced only to a prominence, small triangular arms in the shape of a cross with holes at the ends, breasts in evidence, large pelvis with large thighs and buttocks, legs reduced to appendages; at the top of the head mouth.
PRODUCTION: Anatolian culture of the bronze
STATE OF CONSERVATION: integral, with the exception of a missing ear
DIMENSIONS: h. cm 17
ORIGIN: private collection, Milan