[doc1019]

I would suggest a young lad with an ability to carve and an imaginative libido. One not yet experienced in the true body proportions that only experience can give. IMHO ;-)

[muawiyah]

It's shamistic ~ could have something to do with birthing, fertility, or instruction ~ and given the nature of those times, probably all those things.

Life was hard then ~ far more than we can imagine. That someone invested the time necessary to carve this piece suggests it served far higher purposes than pornography.

[muawiyah]

The figurine is pregnant. The cervix is dilated. The baby's crown is at the right point for birth to begin.

This is the very moment of delivery.

The more I look at this the more I realize it is a set of instructions for everyone involved in the birth of the baby.

This is the correct position for everything. (Having read Beck's Obstetrics a time or two "way back when" we had pregnant ladies in the office and my own kids were on the way).