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Two pairs of female statuettes from Tell Halaf (on the Khabur river in Syria), dating to the VI millennium B.C. The posture of the figures, holding the breast with their hands, suggests in this case too an emphasis on the maternal and generative function. The face is reduced to a scarcely outlined shape and lacking any feature, as it occurred in the “Venuses” of the Paleolithic period. The objects are in the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin (Museum of the Ancient Near East), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany.

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