Venus of Sireuil

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The Venus of Sireuil is one of calcite verfertigte Venus figurines made by M. Prat in a 1900 trolley track in probably secondary storage on the territory of the municipality Sireuil, in the department of Dordogne was in France found.

The figure is 9 cm high and, like the Venus of Tursac , consists of reddish shimmering calcite. It shows a headless female. However, it cannot be clearly determined whether this was canceled or not displayed. The short arms are close and relatively high on the upper body. Hands are either not shown or broken off. Small breasts shown very high up on the upper body allow a clear gender assignment in this figure. Similar to the Venus of Tursac, the legs are angled under or in front of the lower body. The buttocks are stretched steeply upwards or backwards. From a medical point of view, this is a pronounced lumbar lordosis . The body is leptomorphic , and there is a possibility that the person depicted is pregnant. It is believed that the figure was either created by the same artist as the Venus of Tursac or at least belongs to the same artistic tradition / "school". It can therefore be assumed that, like this one, it can be assigned to Gravettian . The find is now kept in the Musée des Antiquités Nationales in Saint-Germain-en-Laye .

literature

  • Henri Breuil , Denis Peyrony: Statuette féminine aurignacienne de Sireuil (Dordogne). In: Revue Anthropologique. Volume 40, 1930, pp. 44-47.
  • Jean-Pierre Duhard: Étude comparative des statuettes féminines de Sireuil et Tursac (Dordogne). In: Gallia préhistoire. Volume 35, 1993, pp. 283-291 ( online ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Wolf Gunter Haensch: The human statuettes of the middle Upper Palaeolithic from the point of view of somatic anthropology (= Antiquitas. Series 2, Volume 12). Habelt, Bonn 1982, p. 60.
  2. ↑ Jean-Pierre Duhard: Étude comparative of statuettes féminines de Sireuil et Tursac (Dordogne). In: Gallia préhistoire. Volume 35, 1993, p. 290.