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



