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Great mother goddess; Indus Valley, 2000 BC. Terracotta. Damage caused by the passage of time. Size: 18.5 x 7 cm (diameter). Statuette in round bulk representing a Mother Goddess, which can be deduced from the execution of the breasts. The face is treated with synthetic features. The Indus Valley culture was contemporary with the great civilisations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and its economic, technological and cultural development is comparable to that of the latter. This civilisation, which established the first cities on the Indian subcontinent, probably grew out of the evolution of the agricultural communities established during the Neolithic period along the Indus River and its tributaries. Thus, Harappa, which was a small village along the Ravi River around 3500 BC, evolved into a large city spread over 150 hectares a thousand years later. Such a change may have been influenced by relations with the urban world of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, or it may simply have been due to trade with Mesopotamia, which led to an economic development that necessitated cities as centres of production and exchange; these relations may also have provided a model of organisation and perhaps building techniques, which in both the Indus and Mesopotamia were based on the use of mud brick. Whatever their origin, it is certain that between 2600 and 1700 BC a technically advanced civilisation flourished in the Indus Valley, based on large cities at the centre of a vast territory.

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Great mother goddess; Indus Valley, 2000 BC. Terracotta. Damage caused by the passage of time. Size: 18.5 x 7 cm (diameter). Statuette in round bulk representing a Mother Goddess, which can be deduced from the execution of the breasts. The face is treated with synthetic features. The Indus Valley culture was contemporary with the great civilisations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and its economic, technological and cultural development is comparable to that of the latter. This civilisation, which established the first cities on the Indian subcontinent, probably grew out of the evolution of the agricultural communities established during the Neolithic period along the Indus River and its tributaries. Thus, Harappa, which was a small village along the Ravi River around 3500 BC, evolved into a large city spread over 150 hectares a thousand years later. Such a change may have been influenced by relations with the urban world of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, or it may simply have been due to trade with Mesopotamia, which led to an economic development that necessitated cities as centres of production and exchange; these relations may also have provided a model of organisation and perhaps building techniques, which in both the Indus and Mesopotamia were based on the use of mud brick. Whatever their origin, it is certain that between 2600 and 1700 BC a technically advanced civilisation flourished in the Indus Valley, based on large cities at the centre of a vast territory.

Estimate 1 200 - 1 400 EUR
Starting price 700 EUR

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