Mother of grain from Yarim Tepe

Figurine of a nude "woman" from Yarim Tepe, Iraq. Ubaid period, 5000-4000 BCE. Iraq Museum...

Pic by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Here is the drawing of this figurine with the dimensions form this paper: Understanding symbols: putting meaning into the painted pottery of prehistoric northern Mesopotamia

Really cool...

But, potentially, this figurine could be really really really cool, if I am right...🙂

Look at this: Yarim Tepe was an early farming settlement situated between Tigris and Euphrates...

Now have a look at the figurine again... Is this really just a figurine of an ordinary woman with an extraordinary large "V", or is this a depiction of a fertile land between two great rivers? A "fertile mother earth"...

Inanna spoke:

...

As for me, Inanna,

Who will plow my vulva?

Who will plow my high field?

Who will plow my wet ground?

...

From: "The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi"

BTW, did you notice that the figurine is headless? Remember my post about Palaeolithic Venus figurines from Europe: Why were (most) European Palaeolithic female figurines made faceless and fat with super exaggerated sexual characteristics? Cause (maybe) they don't depict real women. Cause (maybe) they depict an idea of fertility...Goddess of Fertility... 

Same thing here?