About the work
This South Arabian, Bronze Age figure is carved with a distinctive rectangular, boxy frame. Her hands are placed under her breasts and indentations signify fat rolls. Local people likely recognized this style as a convention indicating fertility and prosperity. Unlike earlier depictions of fertility deities, South Arabian sculptures were more abstracted and rendered in stocky yet detailed closed forms like this figure.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Object Description
Sculpture
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