Phallus of Schelblades

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Phallus of Schelblades

The Schelklingen phallus was found in 2004 in the Hohle Fels cave near Schelklingen in the Alb-Danube district in Baden-Württemberg . The approximately 28,000 year old phallus from a gravetti layer from the Ice Age is made of anthracite-colored siltstone . It is 19.2 inches long, 3.6 inches wide, 2.8 inches thick and weighs 287 grams.

The stone artifact , reconstructed from 14 fragments, shows scars and scratches, which are supposed to prove that it was also used as a striking stone . It comes from a stratigraphically delimitable layer that provided over 10,000 flint artifacts, numerous organic artifacts and an unusually large amount of charcoal and bone ashes. The phallus-shaped percussion instrument provides information on male sexual representations in Gravettia, a period that has so far been known primarily for its Venus figurines and depictions of animals and chimera .

literature

  • Harald Floss , phalliform retoucher from the Gravettien des Hohle Fels, Baden-Württemberg (Germany) . In: Gabriele Uelsberg (ed.), Stefan Lötters (arrangement): Roots, roots of humanity . Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, 2006, p. 345
  • Georg Hiller and Stefanie Kölbl, Welt-Kult-Ur-Sprung , Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ulm 2016, ISBN 978-3-7995-1168-1 , chapter Phallus , p. 40 (German and English)

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