Statue menhir from Gallmersgarten
The statue menhir from Gallmersgarten in the district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim in Bavaria , near the border with Baden-Württemberg , came to light during excavation work at a depth of about 1.5 m. The site of the statue menhir was severely disturbed, a hard shoulder could not be determined and a stratigraphic connection was impossible. Profiles laid out next to the site indicate that the site was used several times up until the late La Tène period .
The Copper Age sandstone stele made of a cylindrical block of 110 cm length shows a semicircular head section with clearly set off shoulders and a reduced face. Three-dimensional, crescent-shaped or horn-shaped objects protrude from the back.
In particular, the mask-like horseshoe-shaped face of the figure, worked out using the negative technique, can be classified in the group of anthropomorphic menhir statues in Occitania and the north-central Italian region as far as Corsica and Sardinia . In the northern Alpine region, the arms, faces or other attributes are usually done using the scratching or picking technique. Similarities to the late Neolithic menhirs of the Middle Elb-Saale area (today's Saxony-Anhalt) also show the so-called " Ebracher Götze", such as the deep-set, circular eyes and a heavy collar carved out in relief (cf. megalithic culture in Saxony-Anhalt ) .
In contrast to this, the so-called Bamberg idols are mostly attested only to a pre-Romanesque age. The classification of these sculptures, which were found in 1858 in Gaustadt near Bamberg in the alluvial sand of the Regnitz , is still controversial, since a radiometric determination of the age of the rock itself is not possible.
literature
- Martin Nadler: Prehistoric stele in the canal. In: Archeology in Germany (AiD), issue 2/2015, p. 37.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lothar Bauer: The place where the so-called "Ebracher Götzen" was found. A clarification. Find reports 8, 1956, p. 49
- ↑ Cornelia Lohwasser: Götzen, Becher, Zehnerla: River finds from Regnitz and Main. In: Regina Hanemann (ed.): In the flow of history. Bamberg's lifeline, Regnitz . Bamberg, 2009, pp. 182-190