On 2 November within the framework of the international exhibition “Mother Goddess: From Anahit to Mary”, the History Museum of Armenia will host a lecture by Benik Vardanyan, researcher-curator of the Department of Archaeology and Numismatics of the History Museum of Armenia, entitled “The Worship of Woman and the Methods of Her Depiction in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Armenia”.

In his lecture, the speaker described places where the rituals took place, the objects used in them, the iconographic data, the Early Bronze Age statuettes (35th-24th centuries BC), the worship and iconography of the goddess in the Middle Bronze Age, the image of the “Great Mother”, the protector of the hearth and the patron goddess of fertility in the Late Bronze Age (15th-13th centuries BC), as well as the temple complexes attributed to the Early Iron Age, the female idols of the Iron Age burial grounds, and the bronze sculptures found in the north-eastern regions of Armenia (Ayrum and Paravakar).

After the speech, the participants visited the exhibition “Mother Goddess: From Anahit to Mary”.

Photos by Asatur Yesayants.