There are "vulvaforms" represented in rock art of the Great Basin and California that you might consider for comparison.

Loren Huddleston Thank you for your answer. I'm looking for comparative material from the Mediterranean, but it may be indeed worth looking at other regions as well. So, if you can recommend me any literature, I will be most grateful.

Best,

Paweł

There are examples at the Hickson petroglyph site in Central Nevada as discussed in A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest By Alex Patterson.

There are other examples of this motif in literature for the Sierras and The Great Basin. (Other interpretations too, of course!)

I'll try and dig around for a few other sources.

Loren Huddleston Thank you.

Hi Pawel, I can offer some comparative examples from Australian contexts if that would assist a broader comparison. Lynne Bevan's work in northern Italy may offer some examples that are a bit closer. There's another project (author and name escape me at the moment - but I'll check when I'm back home) which I'm certain included pubic triangle depictions from Jordan.

Hi Daniel James,

thanks so much for these references. I'll certainly look up the Italian examples and if you remember the name of the Jordan project, that's even better!

Hello Paweł,

I have a friend she is doing her PhD on rock arts from Aswan and Nubia, I sent your question to her and she have some good infotmations. So, it could be better to contact directly with her, she called Nahla Refaat and that is her email:

[email protected]

Good luck.

Thanks, Sherouk Shehada! Appreciate your help.

Hi Pawel, Anati's 3 volumes "Rock-art in Central Arabia" 1968 - 1972 is the series I was thinking of!

Thanks Daniel! I must finally look it over.

This type of representation is relatively common in Franco-Cantabrian Paleolithic art. In the cave of Tito Bustillo (Spain), for example, there is an area known as the "Camarín de las Vulvas".