Seated female ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex Western Central Asia, now known as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and northern Afghanistan, has yielded objects attesting to a highly developed civilization in the late third and early second millennium Artifacts from the region indicate that there were contacts with Iran to the the few three-dimensional images assigned to this period in Central Asia are a group of stone female figures seated or squatting on a platform and wearing a robe decorated with a pattern, perhaps imitating sheep

Seated female ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex Western Central Asia, now known as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and northern Afghanistan, has yielded objects attesting to a highly developed civilization in the late third and early second millennium Artifacts from the region indicate that there were contacts with Iran to the the few three-dimensional images assigned to this period in Central Asia are a group of stone female figures seated or squatting on a platform and wearing a robe decorated with a pattern, perhaps imitating sheep's fleece. They are always composite figures of soft green chlorite or steatite, with heads of white limestone. This example has a typical abstract form with an armless body and legs represented by a protruding examples of this figure type come from sites in Margiana in southern Turkmenistan, a possible center of their production. Similar seated females on cylinder seal impressions from southwestern Iran appear to depict royal figures. On compartmented stamp seals from western Central Asia, a possible version of the female figure appears where she is sometimes flanked by or seated upon animals or mythical creatures. These attributes could indicate a divine Seated female. Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex. ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium Steatite or chlorite, alabaster. Bronze Age. Bactria-Margiana

How we Work

Contribute

Legal

Contact Us