Fertility Ringstone
date
200-100 BCE
creation place
Asia, India
medium & support
Sandstone
measurements
5/8 in. (1.6 cm)
credit line
Gift of David T. Owsley via the Alconda-Owsley Foundation
accession number
2013.007.001
keywords
agriculture, ancient history, Asians, birth, ceremonial object, civilization, classical antiquity, cult, culture, earth, family, fertility, fertility goddess, fertility ringstone, goddess, gods, Great Mother, history, human being, Indians, Lajja Gauri, lying-in, lying-in room, mythology, nationality, non-Christian religion, offspring, race (human), religion, religious object, ritual object, room, society, squatting, supernatural, woman, yakshas, yakshis
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