The Venus of Eliseevichi is a

Venus figurine A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statue portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.Fagan, Brian M., Beck, Charlotte, "Venus Figurines", beliefs '' The Oxford Companion to Archaeology'', 1996, Oxford University Press, pp. 740–7 ...

from the

Epigravettian The Epigravettian (Greek: ''epi'' "above, on top of", and Gravettian) was one of the last archaeological industries and cultures of the European Upper Paleolithic. It emerged after the Last Glacial Maximum around ~21,000 cal. BP or 19,050 BC ...

exhibited at the

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the large ...

. The figurine was discovered in 1930, near the

Sudost River The Sudost (; ) is a river in Bryansk Oblast in Russia and Chernihiv Oblast in Ukraine. It is a right tributary of the Desna. Some sections of the river form the Russia–Ukraine border. The length of the Sudost is . The area of its basin is ...

in the Bryansk region of

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. It is 15 cm high and was carved from mammoth ivory. Remarkably, the figurine depicts a young woman, just like the Venus impudique. Although the figurine is assigned to the 'Venus' category, the statuette does not appear to be stylistically similar to other Russian Paleolithic figurines (such as the Venus figurines of Kostenki or the Venus figurines of Gagarino).

Literature

* Henri Delporte: ''L’image de la femme dans l’art préhistorique'', Ed. Picard 1979.

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Description and pictures of the Venus of Eliseevichi
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eliseevichi Venus figurines Gravettian Ivory works of art Archaeology in Europe Culture of Bryansk Oblast Archaeological discoveries in Russia History of Bryansk Oblast 1930 archaeological discoveries