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 View CategoriesHome > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Central Asian Antiquities| > AE61806Indus Valley, Terracotta Mother Goddess Bust, 3rd Millennium B.C. Fertility cults were common in the prehistoric cultures of the Indus Valley and the adjacent regions. Invariably female figurines were involved, which are commonly referred to as Mother Goddesses. Female figurines made in terracotta have been found in a large number sites including Nausharo in the Kacchi Plains of Eastern Baluchistan, Nindowari in the Baluchistan Highlands, and Moenjodaro and Harappa in the Indus River Valley.
AE61806. Mother goddess bust, fragment from full figure, 5 cm, SOLD
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