Statue Menhir Castaldu 1
The statue menhir Castaldu 1 is about a meter tall torso of a once larger than life Corsican statue menhir made of coarse-grained granite . It was found in the remote municipality of Ciamannacce (in the Corse-du-Sud department ), on the right bank of the Taravo River .
The fragment lay in a small oak forest, on the edge of a natural terrace , 60 m above the river. In 1981 the stone was supposed to be worked on and the sculpting was discovered. The statue , which is 41 cm wide at the shoulders and narrowing towards the bottom, lacks the head and lower body. The erosion damaged the back. The naked statue shows, under the base of the neck and the only hinted shoulders, as one of the few female breasts and in the stomach area a roughly vertically arranged sword . This makes it one of the "armed menhirs " of phase 5 (1800–1500 BC) according to Roger Grosjean , which only occur in the south of the island and comprises a total of 73 statue menhirs.
See also
literature
- G. Peretti: Scuparta d'una nova stantara in Corsica: Castaldu I - Découverte d'une nouvelle statue-menhir en Corse: Castaldu I (Ciamannacce, Corse-du-Sud). Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française, 83, 6, pp. 164-166, 1986.
- Roger Grosjean : The Megalithic Culture of Corsica. In: Die Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik 64, 1964, H. 13, ISSN 0041-6347 , pp. 403-407.
Web links
- Statue-menhir de Castaldu (French)
- Castaldu statue-menhir - Sculptured Stone in France in Corsica: Corse-Sud (2A) (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ G. Peretti: Report on the statue-menhir de Castaldu . 1983 ( online ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , French)
- ↑ Roger Grosjean : The Megalithic Culture of Corsica . 1964
Coordinates: 41 ° 55 ′ 54 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 3.1 ″ E