Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük
The Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük is a baked-clay nude female form seated between feline-headed arm-rests. The figurine is 17 centimeters long, 11 centimeters wide, 12 centimeters high, and weighs 1 kilogram. It is generally thought to depict a corpulent and fertile Mother goddess in the process of giving birth while seated on her throne, which has two hand rests in the form of feline heads in a Mistress of Animals motif. The statuette, one of several iconographically similar ones found at the site, is similar to other corpulent prehistoric goddess figures, of which the most famous is the Venus…
- material
- ceramic
- held at
- Museum of Anatolian Civilizations · archaeological museum