Marigny (Allier)
This figure, on the left-hand door-jamb of a late-Romanesque rural church
is remarkable for its similarity to post-Romanesque figures in the British
Isles.
A female with damaged or enhanced vulva squats, elbows on knees,
with what appears to be a lunula in one hand, while in the other might be
a basket
or bundle representing a cornucopia.
Or it could be a knot of snakes!
photo by Mike
Adlem
Compare with the figure at Copgrove in Yorkshire
...and an early Babylonian statuette of the goddess Ishtar (Astarte).