Table of Contents

1. Preface (by Bonanno, Anthony); 2. List of Members, With Addresses; 3. Opening Addresses; 4. The Question of Fertility Cults (by Anati, Emmanuel); 5. Old Europe: Sacred Matriarchy or Complementary Opposition? (by Hayden, Brian); 6. Philosophical Paradigms of Fertility Cult Interpretations: Philosophical Perspectives on Seasonal Goddesses (by Straaten, Zak van); 7. Ancient Religions in the Context of Cultural Types (by Lobell, Mimi); 8. Problemes d'interpretation des Objets Miniatures de Dikili Tash (Neolithique Recent) (by Marangou, Christina); 9. Seated Clay Figurines from the Neolithic Period, Israel (by Noy, Tamar); 10. Cultic Finds From the Middle Copper Age of Western Hungary -connections With South East Europe (by Banffy, Eszter); 11. Fecondite et Pratiques Funeraires en egee a L'age du Bronze (by Laffineur, Robert); 12. Of Earrings, Swallows and Theran Ladies (by Tzachili, Iris); 13. Une Influence des Religions Mediterraneennes? Anthropomorphes, Zoomorphes et Pictogrammes Dans la Moitie Sud de la France Au 8eme S. AV. J.C. (by Pautreau, Jean-Pierre); 14. The Prehistoric Maltese Achievement and its Interpretation (by Renfrew, Colin); 15. The Significance of the Nudity, Obesity and Sexuality of the Maltese Goddess Figures (by Biaggi, Cristina); 16. The Megalithic Temples of Malta: An Anthropological Perspective (by Sorlini, Giulia Battiti); 17. New Views on the Hypogeum and Tarxien (by Ferguson, Ian F.G.); 18. Two Relief-carvings of Chalcolithic Malta (by Cutajar, Dominic); 19. Uni-ashtarte and Tanit-iuno Caelestis: Two Phoenician Goddesses of Fertility Reconsidered From Recent Archaeological Discoveries (by Hvidberg-Hansen, F.O.); 20. Egyptian Fertility Magic Within Phoenician and Punic Culture (by Hulbl, Gonther); 21. Fertility Cult in Ancient Ugarit (by Lipinski, Edward); 22. An Ugaritic Text Related to the Fertility Cult (KTU 1.23) (by Segert, Stanislav); 23. Fertility as Blessing and Infertility as Curse in the Ancient Near East and the Old Testament (by Rooy, H.F. van); 24. The Israelite Religious Centre of Kuntillet 'Ajrud, Sinai (by Meshel, Zev); 25. Les Cultes de la FevconditLev/Fertilitev Dans La Grevce Des Citevs (by Leveque, Pierre); 26. Le Tombeau D'amphion et de Zethos et les Fruits de Dionysos (by Rocchi, Maria); 27. Two Altars Dedicated to Demeter: The Goddess of Fertility (by Anabolu, Mukerrem (Usman)); 28. Archeologie et Cultes de Fertilite dans la Religion Romaine: (Des Origines a La Fin de la Republique) (by Glay, Marcel Le); 29. Les Divinites Feminines de la Fertilite et de la Fecondite En hispania Pendant L'epoque Romaine (by Mayer, Marc); 30. The Representation of the Serpent in Ancient Iberia (by Bru Romo, Margarita); 31. Juno and Fertility at the Sanctuary of Tas-silg, Malta (by Velia, Horatio Cr.); 32. Figures; 33. Plates; 34. Notes on Figures; 35. Notes on Plates