Goddesses

9.5 x 3.25 x 3.25 - Statue - bonded stone - Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 2800-2300 B.C. During the period between 3200 and 2000 B.C. the small Cycladic islands (Cyclades, Greece) in the Aegean became home to a flourishing pre-Greek culture. The most prominent craft in Cycladic culture was stone-cutting, especially marble sculpture. The abundance of high quality, white marble on the islands,...

9.5 in. L x 5.5 in. H (24 x 14cm) - statue - bonded stone - National Archaeological Museum, Valetta, Malta. 3000 B.C. The most spectacular monument in Malta is the enormous, labyrinthine underground sanctuary known as the Hypogeum which may have been the ceremonial center of the island encompassing more than 6,000 square meters in three levels. This catacomb-like structure seems to have been at...

7.5 in. H (19cm) - statue - bonded stone - National Archaeological Museum, Pakistan, 2600 BC This figurine was found in the ancient city of Mojenjo-Daro. Most human figurines found in the ruins of that culture are feminine which indicates that women had a high standing in that society. Mohenjo Daro, or in. Mound of the Dead in. is an ancient Indus Valley Civilization city that flourished between...

12 in. H (30.5cm) - statue - bonded stone - Herakleion Museum, Crete, Greece. 1600 B.C. This figurine represents an agricultural fertility Goddess or her Priestess. The original was found in a storage room in the Palace of Knossos, Crete. She is a votive offering and not a cult figure and therefore, probably represents a Priestess who is perhaps a princess of the palace. Although she is dressed...

11 in. H (28cm) - statue - bonded stone - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. 4000 B.C. The image of the bird Goddess appeared in Egypt in early predynastic times (4000 b.c.) as funerary figures with strongly beaked faces and winglike arms and hands. These painted terracota figures, less than a foot high and much alike, were found in graves in Mohamerian, near Edfu. They serve as a superb blend of...

8 in. H (20cm) - statue - bonded stone - National Archaeological Museum of Cagliary, Italy, 3200 - 2800 BC This mother goddess was found in Senorbi, a Turriga locality in the island of Sardinia, Italy, in the ruins of a neolithic village. Its form clearly represents fertility and is very reminecent of the Cycladic art from Greece.

5.25 in. H - statue - bonded stone, marble base - The Brassempouy Lady was originally made from ivory. It dates back to Gravettian, 23000 B.C. It was discovered in 1894 by Edouard Piette and Joseph de Laporterie in the Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy. Known as ?The Lady with the Hood? or ?The Lady of Brassempouy?, this is the most famous statuette of Paleolithic art because it conveys the most...

10 in. H (25cm) - statue - bonded stone - Dordogne, France. 20,000 B.C. The original is 17 inches tall and was found in the entrance to a cave that was both a dwelling place and a ceremonial site. She was painted red, the color of life, blood and rebirth. Paleolithic sculptors chiselled her out of limestone with tools of flint, and gave her to hold in her right hand a bison's horn,...

8 in. H (20cm) - statue - bonded stone - L'Home Museum, Paris, 25.000B.C. The Venus of Lespugue was found in 1922 by Saint Perrier in the cave of Les Rideaux. The sculpture is made out of mammoth ivory and measures 5.75 in. high. The breasts are deteriorated but they have been restored in this reproduction so that we can appreciate the original look of the statue. She represents the Earth and...

8 in. H (20cm) - statue - bonded stone - Natural History Museum, Vienna. 30,000 B.C. The Venus of Willendorf was found by the researcher Szombathy on 8/7/1908. It is made out of limestone and still has some signs of red pigmentation; it fits in the palm of a hand. It is one of the most obese representations of the Paleolithic statuary. She represents the Earth and its fertility and continuation...