Study female statues in Bronze Age of Susa from the morphological perspective

The Bronze Age was the most important age in the past history this age had main and important position in the ancient Iran. This age was coincided with the Elamite civilization in which had placed from the beginning of the Elamite’s age to amidst of the middle Elamite’s age three thousand and one hundred to one thousand and two hundred and fifty before Crist. In this age, Susa was the governmental capital of Elamite. This city had main evolution and development in Bronze Age. The Sculpture method had begun in second half of third before Crist in the Susa. Graving sculpture includes animal and human statues and the human statues has been discussed in this research. in the series of human statues, the number of female statues are more than male statues. At the beginning of Bronze Age, The female statues had affected by recent age (Chalcolithic) and had developed from abstract condition to realism. These statues had been built by using mud in the abstraction and metaphorical method. These statues had no head but the status’s hands and feet had been referred. Also some nodes had been added to these statues and maliebrity lines had been graved. These female statues as symbol of breeding, motherly, religion and ritual ceremony and token for god has had more usage than male statues. How was the development process of female statues in Susa from the view point of morphology? Because of existence of beliefs and credence, there were ostensive exaggeration in the accentuating female’s symbols and signs in the naked statues. The naked statues have been built in two forms of abstract- elementary and the realism. The building process of statues were elementary and formic to humanist statues, had been done very fast. In a collection of the naked statues in which they had exiguity secrecy, the emphases had been done on the nodes, had been displayed with more exaggeration. The form of status’s hands to their breast has been referred to the fertility god. In the next step, the naked statues had changed to the direction of the covert statues which has been built and designed with delicacy and subtlety and has been produced carefully to show the detail of the component of the body, the face, the hair dressing, the jewelry and the graved dress with doctrine and recognition of the human anatomy. Also in collection of covert statues, there are the statues which had been molded and shaped of kings and queens. In these realism statues the propriety of the human anatomy has been regarded the details of the textile of dresses, the types of arrangement of face, the hair dressing has also been built with delicacy and carefully. In all of these statues the way of the respect and the worship and the adoration has been displayed. All statements has been referred to importance of the position, the role of the women in the Bronze Age at the Susa society. This research done in descriptive-analytic method, the library data resources has been used.