Material: mammoth ivory
Dimensions (height): 75 mm
Exhibit type: copy of original (plaster)
Archaeological site: Moravany nad Váhom, Slovakia
Collection: Institute of Archaeology of the SAS, Slovakia
The statue was ploughed up by accident in 1930s in a field near Moravany nad Váhom (records as to the precise location and year of the find vary) and subsequently went missing for many years. It was not returned to Slovakia until 1968. The side view offers us the strikingly oblique line of the waist, which appears to divide the carving into two parts.
