Venus figurines from Mainz

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Only fragments of the Venus figurines from Mainz (also Venus figurines from Mainz-Linsenberg ), two Upper Palaeolithic female statuettes, were found. These are now kept in the Landesmuseum Mainz .

Both fragments show the legs of a Venus figurine. They are 3.6 cm or 3.4 cm high. The second fragment was assembled from 3 parts. The fragments are made of gray-brown sandstone and were excavated by Ernst Neeb during a campaign from 1921-23. Neeb discovered a base camp for Ice Age hunters on the Mainz Linsenberg. It is believed that the two figurines were made in Gravettien .

reception

  • Karin Terberger: Your slumber lasted 20,000 years: how the Venus figures from Mainz-Linsenberg were discovered. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. Mainz, 141, 1991.

literature

  • H. Delporte: L'image de la femme dans l'art préhistorique. Ed. Picard, 1993.
  • O. Jöris, M. Street, F. Sirocko: The Middle Upper Palaeolithic - the glaciers come, people go, weather, climate, human development. 2009, pp. 77-82.
  • H. Müller-Beck, G. Albrecht (Ed.): The beginnings of art 30,000 years ago. Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, illustration p. 76.
  • E. Neeb , O. Schmidtgen : A Paleolithic outdoor resting place on the Linsenberg near Mainz. In: Mainz magazine . Mainz 1924, p. 108ff.
  • S. Rau, D. Naumann, M. Barth, Y. Mühleis, C. Bleckmann: Ice Age: Art and Culture. Thorbecke, 2009.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Müller-Beck, G. Albrecht (Ed.): The beginnings of art 30,000 years ago. Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, p. 76.