| Chapter 2: | Female Figures in Eurasian Neolithic Iconography |
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Figure 16. Marble pregnant Cycladic figure, 2800–2300 BCE. British Museum No. GR 1932-10-18.1. Courtesy of the British Museum. Photograph by Gregory L. Dexter.
goddess serves regeneration as well (see figure 16). There are also a few obviously ferocious figures, perhaps death figures: for example, figures from the pre-Greek Sesklo culture32 and from the Karanovo complex in present-day Southern Romania.33