Iranian Fertility Goddesses' Statues

Authors

1 MA PhD Student in Art Researching, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiyat Modarres University

2 Professor, Department of Art Researching, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiyat Modarres University

Abstract

The fertility goddesses are the female deities to watch over and promote productivity, pregnancy, and birth in many polytheistic cultures. Iranian ultures also have praised these goddesses since Neolithic age until Sassanid period, and have built shrines and statues to satisfy them. Plurality of fertility statues shows life rules from our ancestors' standpoint, and their constant panic of nature rage.
To more easy classification, we have surveyed these objects in seven epochs: Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Achaemenid era, Seleucid­Parthian era, and Sassanid era. It should be mentioned that this approximate classification cannot represent style similarity

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