Venus from Valdivia

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Description

fired clay, dam. (missing part on the upper rim), base;
such figures presumably were worn on the body for some time in order to gain protection for its wearer or to transfer characteristics of the animated figure. Later they were placed in graves as sacrifices combined with the request for fertility, food and prosperity of man.

Proceeds will be given to the “Bürgerverein Altenhilfe e. V. Pliezhausen”

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Expertise

Thermoluminescence Certificate, No FC 0011, Ralf Kotalla, Haigerloch, 27.08.1991

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Littérature comparée

Steinle, Robert Fin, Fruchtbarkeit? Erotik? Sex? im Alten Amerika, Iphofen 2006, p. 55

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Publications

Hoffmann, Ulrich (Hg.), Frauen des alten Amerika in Kult und Alltag, Stuttgart 2001, p. 26

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