Φαλλόσχημη έγκυος «Αφροδίτη» 25.000 χρόνων!

Του Γιώργου Λεκάκη

Photo: Don Hitchcock 2014 Catalog: MAN81693. Source: Original, Musée d’Archeologie Nationale et Domaine, St-Germain-en-Laye. Η «Αφροδίτη του Τουρσάκ» / Venus de Tursac είναι ένα αγαλματίδιο / ειδώλιο 25.000 χρόνων, από ημιδιαφανή ασβεστίτη, που ανακαλύφθηκε στις 5 Αυγούστου 1959 από τον M. Henri Delporte στο Tursac, ένα χωριό του Perigord, κοντά στο Sarlat, στο σπήλαιο l’Abri du Facteur στην Γαλλία.

Είναι ένας αρχαιολογικός θησαυρός,
ύψους μόλις 81 χλστ. και βάρους 57,4 γραμμ.

Θεωρητικά, δεν έχει κεφάλι,
χέρια και στήθη. Αλλά κάποιοι βλέπουν δυο φαλλόσχημες καταλήξεις και δυο κοιλιές εγκύου γυναίκας – μια θεά της γονιμότητος λοιπόν – και κάποιοι άλλοι βλέπουν λυγισμένα πόδια (γλουτούς) σε χορευτική ή ερωτικά
προκλητική στάση! Γι’ αυτό η Γαλλίς αυτή θεωρήθηκε και ως η πρώτη χορεύτρια… “καμπαρέ”…

ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΑ περι ΦΑΛΛΟΥ, ΕΔΩ.

Σε κάθε περίπτωση, εξακολουθεί να είναι ένα πολύ σπάνιο και σημαντικό
εύρημα!..

ΠΗΓΗ: Delporte, 1968. ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 5.7.2018.

Venus de Tursac

The Venus de Tursac is a calcite figure from 25 000 years BP. It was discovered
on 5th August 1959 by M. Henri Delporte at Tursac, a village in the Perigord,
near Sarlat, in the summer of 1959 at ‘l’Abri du Facteur’. It is a treasure, a
figurine made ​​from a block of translucent calcite measuring 81 mm high, and
weighing 57.4 grams. While it lacks a head, arms and breasts it is still a very
rare and important find.

The Venus of Tursac, a figurine of translucent calcite

The Venus de Tursac is a calcite figure from 25 000 years BP. It was
discovered on 5th August 1959 by M. Henri Delporte at Tursac, a village in the
Perigord, near Sarlat, in the summer of 1959 at ‘l’Abri du Facteur’. It is a
treasure, a figurine made ​​from a block of translucent calcite measuring 8 cm
high and weighing 57.4 grams. While it lacks a head, arms and breasts it is
still a very rare and important find.

Discovery of the statuette

On Wednesday, August 5, 1959, at 9 am, Mr. Robert Antoine-Charles, working
under the direction of Mr. Henri Delporte, a professor at Montbrison (Loire),
had begun the digging up of slabs from the sterile layer above the red coloured
archaeological layer which is the subject of studies undertaken this year,
following the sondage 72 in 1958.

Below slabs cemented by deposits of calcite and linked with yellowish
clay, M. Antoine found something interesting, and after washing it turned out
to be a female statuette. It was in the archaeological layer containing small
slabs bearing traces of red. The object was located in square 81.

The location with respect to the control point, a zero engraved in the
wall of the shelter are: depth 25 mm, longitudinal distance 3180 mm, transverse
distance 670 mm SE. Distance perpendicular to the wall, 180 mm

It is a statuette of a conventional type in yellowish light brown,
translucent, with dimensions

Height: 80.4 mm, maximum width: 22.5 mm, maximum thickness: 37.4 mm
(anteroposterior) and weighs 57.5 g.

The head is of subconical shape, with a flexed position, protruding
belly and buttocks, arms not shown, thighs and legs clearly shown, heels
slightly apart, and at the base, an appendix on the nature of which we are
reduced to speculation.