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Aurignacian
41000 BC - 26000 BC
Palaeolithic Europe
Orans (hands upraised posture) half-animal/half-human figure in ivory.
State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Baden-Württemberg
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Mammoth ivory
Dimensions: Height 38 mm, width 14 mm, thick
Location: Geissenklösterle
Author: By Thilo Parg - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
Reference: Https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30552448
Collection: N/A
Gravettian
31000 BC - 19000 BC
Palaeolithic Europe
Upper Palaeolithic Steppe
Moravské zemské muzeum (Moravian Museum), Czech Republic. Female Figure with pendulous breasts. Mother Goddess statue.
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Fired clay
Dimensions: H 111 mmm (4.4 in),W 43 mm (1.7
Location: Dolnà Věstonice
Author: Petr Novák, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5
Reference: Https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2682270
Collection: N/A
Gravettian
31000 BC - 19000 BC
Palaeolithic Europe
Upper Palaeolithic Steppe
Mother Goddess Figure / venus / female figurine. Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna
Category: Sculpture
Year: 25000 BC
Material: Oolitic limestone
Dimensions: H11.1cm
Location: Willendorf
Author: Don Hitchcock - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
Reference: Https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16414348
Collection: N/A
Gravettian
31000 BC - 19000 BC
Palaeolithic Europe
Upper Palaeolithic Steppe
Mother Goddess Figure, venus figurine, female.
Musée de lHomme, Paris, France.
Category: Sculpture
Year: 25000 BC
Material:
Dimensions: H150 mm
Location: Lespugue
Author: By Jos?-Manuel Benito - Own work
Reference: Https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2046658
Collection: N/A
Ain Ghazal Culture
7250 BC - 5000 BC
Neolithic Near-East
This example, known to the BM as Micah, is one of many from the Ain Ghazal cache. The eyes are painted with bitumen and there is a green mineral pigment residue, dioptase.
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Lime plaster, reed armature
Dimensions:
Location: Ain Ghazal
Author:
Reference: Micah
Collection: The British Museum
Ain Ghazal Culture
7250 BC - 5000 BC
Neolithic Near-East
This example, known to the BM as Noah, is one of many from the Ain Ghazal cache. The eyes are painted with bitumen and there is a green mineral pigment residue, dioptase
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Lime plaster, reed armature
Dimensions:
Location: Ain Ghazal
Author:
Reference: Noah
Collection: The British Museum
Ain Ghazal Culture
7250 BC - 5000 BC
Neolithic Near-East
This example, known to the BM as Heifa, is one of many from the Ain Ghazal cache. The eyes are painted with bitumen and there is a green mineral pigment residue, dioptase.
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Lime plaster, reed armature
Dimensions:
Location: Ain Ghazal
Author:
Reference: Heifa
Collection: The British Museum
Halaf culture
6100 BC - 5500 BC
Neolithic Near-East
Clay Mother Goddess / Venus figurine.
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material:
Dimensions:
Location: Halaf
Author:
Reference:
Collection: N/A
Halaf culture
6100 BC - 5500 BC
Neolithic Near-East
painted terracotta Mother Goddess Figure / venus figurine.
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Terracotta
Dimensions: H. 8.20 cm; W. 5 cm; D. 5.40 cm
Location: Halaf
Author:
Reference: AO 21095, AO
Collection: The Louvre
Hamangia culture
5250 BC - 4500 BC
Neolithic Eastern Europe
Found in Cernavodă, Constanța, Romania. Collected by the National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest. Male figure.
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Fired clay
Dimensions: H 4.5 in, W 2.9 in
Location:
Author: By 三猎 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Reference: Https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47577583
Collection: N/A
Hamangia culture
5250 BC - 4500 BC
Neolithic Eastern Europe
Sitting female figure.
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Fired clay
Dimensions:
Location:
Author: By 三猎 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Reference: Https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47567657
Collection: N/A
Badari Culture
5000 BC - 4000 BC
Neolithic Egypt
Location G64/2
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Hippopotamus ivory
Dimensions: H 14 W 3.8 D 2.2 cm Weight: 114
Location: El-Badari
Author:
Reference: EA59648
Collection: The British Museum
Badari Culture
5000 BC - 4000 BC
Neolithic Egypt
Human female figure carved in ivory. Atlas 682
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Ivory
Dimensions:
Location:
Author: Unknown, CC BY-SA 1.0
Reference: Https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47210
Collection: The Louvre
Naqada culture
4400 BC - 3000 BC
Neolithic Egypt
The earliest three-dimensional representations of humans from ancient Egypt have been found in graves of the Predynastic period, Naqada I, 4000-3600 BC. It is thought that their presence was to provide magical support for the owners rebirth and regeneration.(BM)
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Bone, lapis lazuli
Dimensions: 11.4cm
Location: Naqada
Author:
Reference: EA 32141
Collection: The British Museum
Proto Elamite
3200 BC - 2700 BC
Ancient Persia
Neolithic Near-East
This solid-cast sculpture is one of a pair of nearly identical images of a hero or a demon wearing the upturned boots associated with highland regions, his power enhanced by the mighty horns of the ibex on his head(NYM).
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Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Bronze
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Author:
Reference: 2007.280
Collection: New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Early Cycladic Greece
3000 BC - 2500 BC
Ancient Greece
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge,MA, USA
Category: Sculpture
Year:
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Location: Cyclades
Author:
Reference:
Collection: N/A
Early Cycladic Greece
3000 BC - 2500 BC
Ancient Greece
Head from the figure of a woman, Spedos type, Early Cycladic II (2700 BC–2300 BC), Keros culture.
Category: Sculpture
Year: 2700 BC
Material:
Dimensions:
Location: Cyclades
Author:
Reference:
Collection: The Louvre
Sumer
2900 BC - 2124 BC
Ancient Mesopotamia
Gypsum statue of a male figure; only the head is preserved; carved with deeply recessed eye sockets and eyebrows, all originally inlaid, and a shallow recessed area corresponding to the beard which was originally overlaid; the eye sockets still contain extensive traces of bitumen.(BM). Abu Habba (Sippar)
Category: Sculpture
Year:
Material: Gypsum, Bitumen
Dimensions: H 11 cm W 8 cm D 10.5 cm
Location: Sippar
Author:
Reference: 91877
Collection: N/A
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