Venus of Mas d'Azil

Coordinates: 43 ° 4 ′ 10 ″  N , 1 ° 21 ′ 17 ″  E

The Venus of Mas d'Azil

The Venus of Mas d'Azil is a Venus figurine from the younger Paleolithic . It is estimated to be 16,000 to 15,000 years old and assigned to the Magdalenian . The figure was carved from the tooth of a horse and is 5.1 cm long, 1.7 cm wide and 1.3 cm thick. Édouard Piette discovered her in 1888 in the cave of Mas d'Azil in southwest France.

literature

• Henri Delporte : L'image de la femme dans l'art préhistorique , Ed. Picard 1979, p. 36 ff.

See also

• Upper Paleolithic minor art
• Venus of Lespugue
• Venus figurines from Petersfels
• Venus of Willendorf

Web links

• La Grotte du Mas d'Azil