@article{2015,title={On the Symbolism of The Pomegranate in the Ancient Near East: A Corpus Study},abstractNode={The Near East civilizations used various symbols and gave them the same meaning in the Ancient Times. We understand that the pomegranate was one of the important symbols which seemed on the archaeological sources, mythological stories and the written records of the Ancient Near East civilizations. In addition, The Holy Books have the pomegranate as an holy fruit. When the all kind of sources were collected we can see that all of them say the same things regarding pomegranate: fertility, sexuality, holiness and also (maybe) the “forbidden fruit”!What the “forbidden fruit” is in The Holy Books is not clear. Because of that many opinions came up regarding the “forbidden fruit”. One of the opinion is that the “forbidden fruit” can be “pomegranate”. This study discusses how pomegranate was perceived as a symbol in the Ancient Near East and other different ideologies.},author={H. Hande DUYMUŞ FLORIOTI},year={2015},journal={Journal of History School}}