Nayarit Culture

Unknown Artist
Date: 100 BCE-250 CE
Medium: Polychrome painted ceramic
Object Type: Ceramic
Pre-Columbian

The Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük (also Çatal Höyük) is a baked-clay, nude female form seated between feline-headed arm-rests. It is generally thought to depict a corpulent and fertile Mother goddess in the process of giving birth while seated on her t