The Indus Civilization c6.6

c6.6

These figures are almost invariably in a damaged condition, but there is strong reason to believe that they represent the great Mother Goddess, who was worshipped so widely in the Near and Middle East in ancient times, and whose cult is almost universal amongst the lower-class people of modern India. It seems certain that these pottery images of the goddess, whose name is unknown, were kept in almost every house in the Indus Valley cities, probably in a recess or on a bracket on the wall, which would account for the fact that the figures are nearly all roughly finished at the back.