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Anna L. a Campo

fl. 1994–2016

Scholar and cataloguer, active 1994–2016.

Life and work

  1. 1994
    Published Anthropomorphic Representations in Prehistoric Cyprus (SIMA Pocket-book 109), a formal and symbolic analysis of figurines c. 3500-1800 BC, with a corpus in which, per Talalay and Cullen, 78 freestanding plank figures are tabulated (39 from tombs in the Lapithos area, 22 of unknown context).

    A. L. a Campo (1994). Anthropomorphic Representations in Prehistoric Cyprus: A Formal and Symbolic Analysis of Figurines, c. 3500-1800 B.C.. Paul Åströms förlag, Jonsered; L. E. Talalay; T. Cullen (2002). Sexual Ambiguity in Plank Figures from Bronze Age Cyprus, p. 184

  2. 1994
    Argued that the primary meaning of plank figures is 'the representation of individual, human women in role as wife and mother, within their lineage' (Budin's quotation); other summaries add that they depict women of different clans or social groups and may relate to marriage ceremonies.

    S. L. Budin (2011). Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age: Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity and Gender in the Ancient World; Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World

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Sources

  1. 1.A. L. a Campo (1994). Anthropomorphic Representations in Prehistoric Cyprus: A Formal and Symbolic Analysis of Figurines, c. 3500-1800 B.C.. Paul Åströms förlag, Jonsered.
  2. 2.L. E. Talalay; T. Cullen (2002). “Sexual Ambiguity in Plank Figures from Bronze Age Cyprus”.
  3. 3.S. L. Budin (2011). Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age: Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity and Gender in the Ancient World.
  4. 4.Christine Winkelmann (2020). The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Figurines of Cyprus. Münster, Zaphon.
  5. 5.B. S. Düring (2023). “Reconsidering Cruciform Figurines of Chalcolithic Cyprus”. 149-.
  6. 6.“Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World”.

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