femininity, masculinity and sexuality in Middle Bronze Age Mesopotamian society
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terracotta plaque from Tutub
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mesopotamian sexual imagery as temple prostitution and fertility
the Sumerian love poetry to the sexually arousing imagery on terracotta plaques, on account of the fact that they both derive from everyday practice and oral culture of house life in sourthern Mesopotamia. She also sees a “performative function” in Sumerian love poetry “in that it teaches gendered response to sexual arousal”.
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terracotta plaque from Uruk
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terracotta plaque from Babylon.
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