Statuette of a Woman from the 6th to 5th century BC is a bronze statue discovered in Ayrum, Armenia. It is included in the History Museum of Armenia's collection under the number 2225-1.
Description The figure is a miniature cast figure of a nude woman standing on the platform corner, with long legs, high hair, a flat face, and a large, straight nose. The eyes and ears are pronounced by round dimples. On her neck, she has on a thick necklace. Extended in her left hand, there is a pear-shaped jug, her right elbow is bent holding a drinking horn. The nude female statuettes were linked with the ritual belief of fertility and incorporated with the goddess Anahit, who as a mother-goddess was also included in the battle, fertility, and functions of the goddess of love, gardening, wheat, and patron goddess of animals. Հայացք բրոնզե դարից, Ալբոմ-կատալոգ, Հայաստանի պատմության թանգարան, 2016, 160 էջ: A Glance from the Bronze Age. Yerevan, History Museum of Armenia, 2016, 160 pages.
References
See also View from the Bronze Age, album-catalog, History Museum of Armenia, 2010 Hasmik Israelian - Cults and Beliefs in the Late Bronze Age of Armenia, Yerevan, 1973