Category:Female figurine

The figurine is a small head in yellowish figulina clay: it consists of only the upper part of the body (shoulders and neck) and the head, the latter with a sort of headgear that frames the face. The somatic characters of the latter are stylized, composed only of the superciliary arches marked by…

At the "Su Monte" shelter, two statuettes were found which will be described in the file with the names of exhibit 1 and exhibit 2. Exhibit 1 of "Muros-Su Monte" is a fine example, albeit not intact, of a steatopygian statuette (belonging to the geometric-volumetric style) in kaonilite, ivory colour. The figurine is…

In Sardinia the cult of the Mother Goddess is found everywhere. The Goddess accompanied the entire life cycle of our Ancestors and Ancestors, from birth to death, up to rebirth. There are several Neolithic finds of “steatopygian” statuettes (a term in scientific language which in this case indicates hypertrophy…

The statuette is a small clay head, surrounded by hair made with a series of notches engraved at regular distances; the face is flat, with a slightly oblique profile and turned upwards from which the profile of the nose emerges. The eyes are marked by two horizontal incisions, while…

This is a small female statuette in dark olive gray steatite, with even darker streaks evident in the lower part. Obtained from an oblong pebble which probably originally already had a shape not very dissimilar from the current one, it was then worked to highlight the various…

It is a female statuette made from a single block of purified orange clay, with traces of red paint (of the red-banded ceramic type) present on the face, shoulders and part of the neck. The body has a trapezoidal profile that is hollow inside, as if the body…

In 1963, during the works for the opening of a quarry on the hill known as Monte San Giuliano, some finds were found that can be dated back to the ancient Bronze Age and classifiable in the field of figurative clay plastic. Several years later, between 1968 and 1969, the investigations of the…

It is a faceless female statuette found in 1940 in the Alboni quarries of Chiozza di Scandiano, near Reggio Emilia. She has a conical head with sagging shoulders and breasts, a round belly with a hole to highlight the navel, incised vulva, rounded buttocks and joined legs…

The few remains of structures found during the excavations in the locality of Grangiara, in the municipality of Spadafora in the province of Messina, such as fragments of plaster, strips of beaten concrete and small collapses, seem to indicate a residential context on the site, a hypothesis confirmed by the finding of fragments attributable to ceramics from…

The discovery of this extraordinary building is due to Ercole Contu who, finding himself in front of a mound of earth, was initially convinced of finding a nuraghe. With the excavations he instead discovered the remains of a truncated pyramidal construction preceded by a long ascending ramp that had strong similarities with the…