Gilat woman

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Gilat woman

The Gilat Woman (or Gilat Lady ) is a chalcolithitic ceramic vessel in the shape of a woman who carries a vessel on her head.

David Alon found the vessel in 1975 in Gilat in the north of the Negev in Israel , in a building that could have been a temple . Gilat is a low hill in the Negev desert with one of the few Chalcolithic sanctuaries in the southern Levant . The striped figure was found together with a three-bowl vessel depicting a ram . The Copper Age was a time of social change in the prehistory of the Middle East in the fields of agriculture , handicraft and temple cult.

The so far unique, painted, seated ceramic figure with the emphasized pubic triangle with the ideas in the context of fertility receives its significance. It is one of the few examples of art from the 4th millennium BC. In the Levant .

The vessel is now in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

literature

  • David Alon: Two cult vessels from Gilat . In: Atiqot 11, 1976, pp. 116-118.
  • Nili Sacher Fox: The Striped Goddess from Gilat: Implications for the Chalcolithic Cult . In: Israel Exploration Journal Vol. 45, 4, 1995, pp. 212-225.
  • Alexander H. Joffe, JP Dessel, Rachel S. Hallote: The “Gilat Women”. Female Iconography, Chalcolithic Cult, and the End of Southern Levantine Prehistory . In: Near Easter Archeology Vol. 64, 1/2, 2001, pp. 8-23 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In prehistoric and early historical depictions of the Levant, the seated position is reserved for divine persons.
  2. ↑ Inventory number IAA 1976-54.

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