The culture is also known for its enigmatic and iconic “Mother Goddess” figurines, which are believed to have been part of a Yarmukian fertility cult. Renewed excavations at the Sha’ar ...

Nobby the fertility figure sold for £3,000 at auction. Credit: Noonans A Celtic fertility figure nicknamed Nobby, which resembles the Cerne Abbas Giant, has sold at auction for £3,000.

Unlike the voluptuous fertility figurines of later eras, this carving is highly abstract, with no exaggerated anatomical features. It features an oval-shaped head etched with parallel vertical ...

the figurine is a representation of a fertility god made by the Celts in the first century CE. Mills implied that the figure was modeled after Mercury, the Roman god of commerce and communication ...

strengthen the identification of the figurine as a female deity, perhaps even Freya, the Norse goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. Yet there are also elements that indicate that the figurine ...

The South Asasif Conservation Project, which led the dig, said in a news release that a green-blue glazed faience fertility figurine was also an "important find." "It is well-modeled and decorated ...

They also made so-called Venus figurines that might have represented fertility. Posth and his colleagues found DNA in Gravettian remains scattered across Europe. The scientists had expected all of ...