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Excerpt from The Exhibit of the Section of Egypt and the Mediterranean, Atlanta Exposition, 1895 A series of clay idols (from c. 2000-600 B. C.) begin nin g with mere board-like fetishes found in groves sacred to the worship of the Great Nature Goddess, and shown by the objects associated with them to belong to the copper-bronze age of Cyprus, illustrates the plastic evolution of female wor ship from a shapeless piece of clay, upon which female attributes are barely indicated, through every step of grow ing anthropomorphism to the varied artistic expressions which, under Hellenic and other inuences, gave rise to many artistic types. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.