Statue menhir from Schafstädt

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Statue menhir from Schafstädt
The menhir of Schaftstädt in the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle (Saale)

The menhir of Schaftstädt in the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle (Saale)
Statue menhir from Schafstädt (Saxony-Anhalt)
Schafstädt
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Statue menhir from Schafstädt
Coordinates Schafstädt coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 52.7 ″  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 32.1 ″  E , Halle
place originally Bad Lauchstädt OT Schafstädt , now Halle (Saale) , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany
Emergence 2800-2200 BC Chr.

The statue menhir of Schafstädt is a roughly hewn, figurative menhir from the late Neolithic Age , which was found near Schafstädt , a district of Bad Lauchstädt in the Saale district in Saxony-Anhalt and is now in the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle (Saale) . It originated in the Cord Ceramic Culture (2800–2200 BC).

Location and description

The menhir was found in 1962 in the village of Schafstädt in a stone slab grave, where it was used as a secondary construction. Its original purpose seemed to have been forgotten as it stood upside down.

The gray-green shell limestone plate is 94 cm high, 49 cm wide and 25.5 cm thick. During the rescue, a piece of the underside of the menhir broke off and was lost. A stylized human figure is depicted on the front. The face is formed by two deeply drilled eyes, as well as patted-in eyebrows and a nose. Black-brown paint residues have been preserved in the eye sockets. Below the head, three deep, semicircular lines presumably represent a lunula . Next to it are two arms that come to an end in the middle of the stone. The left hand consists of five lines, the right of six. An object with six prongs, perhaps a comb, is depicted between the hands. Below the hands, three deep lines that run around the whole stone represent a belt .

classification

Three other statue menirs are known from the Middle Elbe-Saale area:

literature

  • Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 437, 459-460.
  • Waldemar Matthias : A new menhir statue from Central Germany. In: excavations and finds. Volume 8, 1963, p. 32.
  • Waldemar Matthias: New ceramic cord finds and a menhir statue from the Schafstädt district, Merseburg district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 48, 1964, pp. 90-105.
  • Harald Meller (Ed.): Bronzerausch. Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Booklets accompanying the permanent exhibition in the State Museum of Prehistory, Volume 4, Halle (Saale) 2011, p. 10.
  • Detlef W. Müller : The decorated menhir steles and a plate menhir from Central Germany. In: Stefania Casini, Raffaele C. De Marinis, Annaluisa Pedrotti (eds.): Statue-stele e massi incisi nell'Europa dell'età del rame. Notie archeologiche Bergomensi, Volume 3, Bergamo 1995, pp. 295-304.
  • Detlef W. Müller: Schafstädt, district of Merseburg-Querfurt. In: Siegfried Fröhlich (Ed.): From the prehistory of Saxony-Anhalt. State Museum for Prehistory Halle (Saale), Halle (Saale) 1995, ISBN 3-910010-13-X , No. 11.
  • Detlef W. Müller: The goddess with the piercing look. In: Harald Meller (ed.): Beauty, Power and Death. 120 finds from 120 years of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Halle (Saale) 2001, pp. 198–199.
  • Ralf Schwarz : Menhirs and decorated stone chamber tombs. In: Harald Meller (Ed.): Early and Middle Neolithic. Catalogs for the permanent exhibition in the State Museum for Prehistory Halle, Volume 2, Halle (Saale) 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. Pp. 459-460.