What is the most popular tattoo?
Robert Chenciner, co-author of Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan, explains
It’s the ‘adoration’ pose miniature male figurine which was on breasts, between breasts, forearm, wrist, hands and insteps of 18 women out of the 109 who had tattoos, page 24. It was to ensure that they had a healthy baby to carry on the family. There is a spoon box with an ‘adoration’ man carved in relief, page 73 and it is found in stucco protecting the entrance/ threshold of houses, and on carved tombstones, page 65. The adoration figurine is most often found in ancient 7-8cm high lost-wax copper alloy figurines found in mountain villages, and which, according to metal content analysis and other archaeological evidence were made before 5th century AD, page 17.
It’s the ‘adoration’ pose miniature male figurine which was on breasts, between breasts, forearm, wrist, hands and insteps of 18 women out of the 109 who had tattoos, page 24. It was to ensure that they had a healthy baby to carry on the family. There is a spoon box with an ‘adoration’ man carved in relief, page 73 and it is found in stucco protecting the entrance/ threshold of houses, and on carved tombstones, page 65. The adoration figurine is most often found in ancient 7-8cm high lost-wax copper alloy figurines found in mountain villages, and which, according to metal content analysis and other archaeological evidence were made before 5th century AD, page 17.
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