Venus of walls

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Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 30 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 8 ″  E

The Venus of Walls

The Venus von Mauern (also: "Rote von Mauern" ) is a Venus figurine from the younger Paleolithic . It is assigned to the Gravettian , the age is given as about 27,000 years. The red-painted limestone figurine was found near Wauern (Rennertshofen) in 1948 and has since been kept in the State Archaeological Collection in Munich.

Find history

The 1948/49 excavations in the vineyard caves near Mauern in the Wellheim dry valley were headed by the prehistoric Lothar Zotz from the University of Erlangen . The amateur archaeologist Christoff von Vojkffy found the statuette on August 24, 1948 during the excavation work. The figure was found on the outer slope between caves 2 and 3.

description

Venus of Walls / The Red of Walls

The 7.2 cm high figure is made of marly limestone and is colored red. The statuette can be interpreted in two ways: as a strongly stylized representation of a woman with accentuated buttocks or as a penis with testicles. At the top there is a recess that can be interpreted as a representation of the urine duct. This type of double-sex representation can be found in several Upper Palaeolithic statuettes, including figurines from the localities Dolni Vestonice , Gönnersdorf , Nebra, Mezin , Milandes, Oelknitz , Savignano , Trasimeno and Trou Magrite.

Indentation on the upper pin of the statuette

literature

  • Karl Dietrich Adam , Renate Kurz: Ice Age Art in Southern Germany . Theiss, Stuttgart 1980.
  • Assien Bohmers: The Caves of Walls I. Cultural history of the Paleolithic settlement . (= Palaeohistoria 1). JB Wolters, Groningen 1951.
  • Henri Delporte : L'image de la femme dans l'art préhistorique. Ed. Picard, 1979, p. 132 f.
  • Claus-Stephan Holdermann, Hansjürgen Müller-Beck , Ulrich Simon (Ed.): Ice Age Art in the South German-Swiss Jura: Beginnings of Art. Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, p. 53.
  • Wighard von Koenigswald, Hansjürgen Müller-Beck, Erich Pressmar: The archeology and palaeontology in the vineyard caves near Mauern (Bavaria). Excavations 1937–1967 . (= Archaeologica Venatoria, Volume 3). Institute for Prehistory, Tübingen 1974.
  • Hansjürgen Müller-Beck, Gerd Albrecht: The beginnings of art 30,000 years ago. Theiss, Stuttgart 1987.
  • Hermann Müller-Karpe : Handbook of Prehistory I, Paleolithic . Munich 1966, pp. 299-301.
  • M. Mussi: The red of walls: La "Dame rouge" de walls revisitée . Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique de l'Ariège, 1997, 52: 45-60.
  • Lothar Zotz (Ed.): The Palaeolithic in the vineyard caves near walls. Röhrscheid-Verlag, Bonn 1955.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar Zotz (ed.): The Palaeolithic in the vineyard caves near walls. Röhrscheid-Verlag, Bonn 1955, p. 33.
  2. ↑ Hansjürgen Müller-Beck, Gerd Albrecht: The beginnings of art 30,000 years ago. Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, p. 76.
  3. ^ Claus-Stephan Holdermann, Hansjürgen Müller-Beck, Ulrich Simon (eds.): Ice Age Art in the South German-Swiss Jura: Beginnings of Art. Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, p. 58.

See also

Web links

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