Cast Of The Willendorf Venus
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1930
name: label: Donor Name
content: James T. Russell Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Cast from Landes Museum, Vienna, Austria."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf , retrieved October 5, 2011: The "Venus of Willendorf", also known as the Woman of Willendorf, is an 11 cm (4.3 in) high statuette of a female figure estimated to have been made between 24,000 and 22,000 BCE. It was discovered in 1908 by archaeologist Josef Szombathy at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the city of Krems. It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. It never had feet and does not stand on its own. The figure has no visible face, her head being covered with circular horizontal bands of what might be rows of plaited hair, or a type of headdress. The nickname, urging a comparison to the classical image of "Venus," is now controversial. The original "Venus of Willendorf" is in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Austria, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 112339
label: USNM Number
content: A350425-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cast
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 11 cm