Adorant from Geißenklösterle

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The Adorant vom Geißenklösterle is a 35,000 to 40,000 year old ivory plaque with the image of a human being from the Geißenklösterle , a cave in the Akhtal near Blaubeuren. 

The Adorant vom Geißenklösterle, mammoth ivory, State Museum Württemberg (Stuttgart)

The plate shows a figure in half-relief with raised arms and spread legs. Geometric engravings (rows of notches) are made on the long and short sides and on the back. The attitude of the depicted being is often interpreted as adoration - hence the name “ adorant ”.

The ivory plate was excavated in 1979. It is 38 mm high, 14 mm wide and 4.5 mm thick. The skin-colored, darkened ivory shows traces of manganese and red chalk. The work of art is in the Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart.

See also

literature

  • Joachim Hahn 1980: A depiction of people from the Aurignacia period from the Geißenklösterle near Blaubeuren, Alb-Donau district. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Wuerttemberg - newsletter of the state preservation of monuments, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1980), pp. 56–58.
  • Joachim Hahn, 1988: The Geißenklösterle cave in the Achtal near Blaubeuren,, Stuttgart: Karl Theiss Verlag.
  • C.-S. Holdermann, Müller-Beck, H. and Simon, U., 2001: Ice Age Art in the South German-Swiss Jura: Beginnings of Art,, Stuttgart: Karl Theiss Verlag.
  • Hansjürgen Müller-Beck and G. Albrecht (Ed.), 1987: The beginnings of art 30,000 years ago Theiss: Stuttgart.

Web links

English-language page about the Adoranten vom Geißenklösterle with images on Don's Maps

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Müller-Beck, H. and Albrecht, G. (Ed.), 1987: The beginnings of art 30,000 years ago Theiss: Stuttgart. P. 75; Fig. P. 32.
  2. ↑ Joachim Hahn: An aurignacia time representation of people from the Geißenklösterle near Blaubeuren, Alb-Donau-Kreis. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Wuerttemberg - newsletter of the state preservation of monuments, vol. 9, no. 2 (1980), p. 58.
  3. ↑ Joachim Hahn: An aurignacia time representation of people from the Geißenklösterle near Blaubeuren, Alb-Donau-Kreis. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Wuerttemberg - newsletter of the state preservation of monuments, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1980), pp. 56–58.