Times Change: A Comparative Formal Analysis
...s carved from a limestone not found in the area so it must have been brought to that area from some other location. She (The Venus of Willendorf) is said to represent fertility because of her large stomach and breasts and her hands positions on her breasts. This shows what was most important to the ancients near the year of its creation, c. 30,000-25,000 BCE. Fertility and the creation of life were the reasons for prayer. They were not concerned with praying for wealth or food, because life was so hard that all they could be concerned with was life and creating more of it. The Venus of Willendorf: front, side, and back views The Statuettes of Two Worshipers, from Eshnunna are from the square temple at Eshnunna, modernly known as Tell Asmar. The statuettes are made from gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone. They were made around 2700 BCE and range in size anywhere from well under one foot to around thirty inches. This time period is very different from the time period that the “Venus” is from; they represent mortals, rather than deities. Hundreds of these “ goblets” have been found in the temple complex at Eshnunna. These figurines are said to be tilting their head upwards while they wait for the divinity to appear in the Sumerian “waiting room”. The figures have a human likeness or “realistic ness” to them, but they also have many disproportionate parts. Their eyes are large and open, as if they are always awake, always praying, always offering to the gods on the owner’s...