Venus figurines from Saraisk

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Venus figurine No. 1 by Saraisk
Venus figurine No. 2 by Sarayisk

The Venus figurines of Zaraysk are two Stone Age representations of the female body. They are both made of ivory. The age of the Venus figurines is given as 22,000 to 16,000 years; they come from the Gravettian . The sculptures were discovered in 2005 by Hizri Amirkhanov and Sergey Lev. Finds from the Sarayisk excavation site show features of both the Avdejevo culture (cf. Venus figurines from Avdejewo ) and the Kostjonki culture (cf. Venus figurines from Kostjonki ). The sculptures are kept in the Saraiski Kremlin Museum ( Зарайский кремль ) near Moscow.

The so-called figurine no. 1 is 16.6 cm high. It represents a female body without shaping the face; a hairstyle is indicated by short notches. The legs are separated. Presumably the woman is depicted as pregnant. The figurine no. 2 is incomplete and 7.4 cm high. Both figurines were found close to each other, both covered by the shoulder blades of mammoths. Both figurines were bedded in fine sand and an area in the immediate vicinity of the head was sprinkled with red ocher.

The site is near Saraisk (Russian Зара́йск ), a city in Russia in Moscow Oblast, 162 kilometers southeast of Moscow on the Ossjotr, a tributary of the Oka.

See also

literature

  • H. Amirkhanov, S. Lev: New finds of art objects from the Upper Palaeolithic site of Zaraysk, Russia. In: Antiquity. Volume 82, No. 318, 2008, pp. 862-870.
  • Jill Cook: Ice Age Art: the Arrival of the Modern Mind. British Museum Press, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-7141-2333-2 , pp. 85 f. (with picture)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Venus of Zaraysk / Зарайск Венера, part of the Kostenki-Willendorf culture at donsmaps.com, accessed on August 11, 2018.
  2. ^ Jill Cook, Ice Age Art: the Arrival of the Modern Mind. British Museum Press, London 2013, p. 84.
  3. ^ Jill Cook, Ice Age Art: the Arrival of the Modern Mind. British Museum Press, London 2013, p. 84.
  4. ↑ H. Amirkhanov, S. Lev: New finds of art objects from the Upper Palaeolithic site of Zaraysk, Russia. In: Antiquity. Volume 82, No. 318, 2008, p. 865.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The Russian Wikipedia has an article on Зарайская стоянка
  2. ↑ The Russian Wikipedia has an article on Зарайский кремль (музей)