Fertility charms or erotica?

ICONOGRAPHY: Birth Rites in Canaan: The Enigma of the Nude Female Figurines. Canaanite homes in the Bronze Age had nude female figurines but none showing birth. Other areas did have birth figurines. What could this mean? (Haaretz, Ruth Schuster).

One such figurine was found in Israel this March.

For some thoughts on fertility and infertility in the Bible, see here.

For more on that perplexing drawing from Kultillet Ajrud, see here and links and here.

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