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Marmotta I, Neolithic canoeVilla Romana delle Mura di Santo StefanoVilla Rustica

Location:

  • Italy, Anguillara Sabazia
  • geo:42.094864,12.276304
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -8800 / -2000

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=51997

Annotations

The so-called Marmotta’s Venus, a figurine 4.8 cm high, disovered by the underwater excavations in the Neolithic village is a female green steatite sculpture dates to the Early Neolithic Age ca 4800-4100 BC. . As it was placed under the floor of a building probably a Sanctuary it could be a so-called a figure of Mother Goddess widesrpread in Neolithic Europe. This type of Mother Goddess -  “Venus” was widespread in the Early Palaeolithic and Epipaleolithic Periods.

See:

  1. Mario Mineo, Judith Harris: Travels to "La Marmotta" a neolithic settlement beneath the waters of lake Bracciano, https://www.academia.edu/21876821
  2. Timothy Insoll: The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 784, 785 f
  3. http://www.europeanvirtualmuseum.it/repertidettagli/Deepenings118.htm

Nearby

La Marmotta - Lake Bracciano

Neolithic settlement.

Marmotta I

Museo nazionale preistorico etnografico Luigi Pigorini.

Anguillara Sabazia

Anguillara Sabazia


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