A New Fertility Figurine and New Animal Motifs from the Chalcolithic in the Southern Levant

Finds from Cave K-1 at Quleh, Israel

Bibliographic Data

ID6107299
AuthorsIanir Milevski (0000-0002-3693-4089, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume28
Issue2
Pages133-141
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePaléorient (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0153-9345 • E-ISSN: 1957-701X
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/paleo.2002.4751
OpenAlexW2005622887
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Excavations at the Chalcolithic cemetery of Quleh in the Coastal Plain of Israel concentrated on eight burial caves. Cave K-1 yielded a unique male fertility figurine found inside one of the several ossuaries placed inside the cave. Made of local clay and found broken in three parts, the almost complete ceramic figurine represents a nude male with erect penis (broken). From an iconographie point of view, its head and face, resemble some of the anthropomorphic motifs from Peqi'in Cave in Upper Galilee and Shiqmim in the Northern Negev. This paper describes the object in detail and proposes an interpretation of its find spot within the framework ofcultic beliefs and practices of the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Cave · Chalcolithic · Geography · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Geology

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