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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The statuette is a small anthropomorphic figure, obtained from a splinter of animal bone, yellowish in color with some red spots, probably due to the lying soil. It has a vertical development ending in the lower part with a point, while in the upper part the head is triangular in shape with two furrows…
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The idol of Arnesano is part of the funerary equipment of the burial found in a cave tomb located about 50 centimeters deep from the ground level, equipped with an access shaft of about 1 meter in diameter and a small vaulted chamber ( of maximum height 1.10…
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In the list of various terracotta objects found in the Village of Ripoli, Giuliano Cremonesi defines the clay statuettes as "Probable idols". “The clay figurines are all of figulina clay and very fragmented. Among the most interesting is the one found in hut 8 and is a large, slightly flattened cylinder covered with…
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It is one of three finds recovered in the Colli Albani area, a mountainous relief of volcanic origin located southeast of the capital; fortuitously found en plein air on woodland and referable to the Upper Paleolithic (10,000-40,000 BC) the three artefacts that can be considered elements of movable art are: the female figure…
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Cozzo Busonè (see photo 1) is a hill on the border between the municipality of Raffadali and Agrigento. Here a necropolis was found with many oven tombs and two large chamber tombs, inside which stone and ceramic artefacts were found. They were also found…
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