Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents iii
3. Preface v
4. List of Members, With Addresses vii
5. Opening Addresses ix
6. SECTION I: PREHISTORY
7. The Question of Fertility Cults 2
8. Old Europe 17
9. Philosophical Paradigms of Fertility Cult Interpretations 31
10. Ancient Religions in the Context of Cultural Types 43
11. Problèmes d'interprétation des Objets Miniatures de Dikili Tash (Néolithique Récent) 55
12. Seated Clay Figurines from the Neolithic Period, Israel 63
13. Cultic Finds From the Middle Copper Age of Western Hungary -connections With South East Europe 69
14. Fécondité et Pratiques Funéraires en égée a L'âge du Bronze 79
15. Of Earrings, Swallows and Theran Ladies 97
16. Une Influence des Religions Méditerranéennes? Anthropomorphes, Zoomorphes et Pictogrammes Dans la Moitié Sud de la France Au 8eme S. AV. J.C. 105
17. SECTION II: PREHISTORY, MALTA
18. The Prehistoric Maltese Achievement and its Interpretation 118
19. The Significance of the Nudity, Obesity and Sexuality of the Maltese Goddess Figures 131
20. The Megalithic Temples of Malta 141
21. New Views on the Hypogeum and Tarxien 151
22. Two Relief-carvings of Chalcolithic Malta 163
23. SECTION III: PHOENICIAN AND NEAR EASTERN RELIGIONS
24. Uni-ashtarte and Tanit-iuno Caelestis 170
25. Egyptian Fertility Magic Within Phoenician and Punic Culture 197
26. Fertility Cult in Ancient Ugarit 207
27. An Ugaritic Text Related to the Fertility Cult ( KTU 1.23) 217
28. Fertility as Blessing and Infertility as Curse in the Ancient Near East and the Old Testament 225
29. The Israelite Religious Centre of Kuntillet 'Ajrud, Sinai 237
30. SECTION IV: THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD
31. Les Cultes de la FévconditLév/Fertilitév Dans La Grévce Des Citévs 242
32. Le Tombeau D'amphion et de Zéthos et les Fruits de Dionysos 257
33. Two Altars Dedicated to Demeter 267
34. Archeologie et Cultes de Fertilité dans la Religion Romaine 273
35. Les Divinités Feminines de la Fertilité et de la Fécondité En hispania Pendant L'époque Romaine 293
36. The Representation of the Serpent in Ancient Iberia 305
37. Juno and Fertility at the Sanctuary of Tas-silg, Malta 315
38. Figures 323
39. Plates 337
40. Notes on Figures 351
41. Notes on Plates 355