Venus of Moravany | |
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Material | Mammoth ivory |
Created | 24,800 years ago |
Discovered | 1930 Slovakia |
The Venus of Moravany (Slovak: Moravianska venuša) is a small prehistoric Venus figurine discovered in Slovakia in the early 20th century.
It was ploughed up in 1930 by farmer Štefan Hulman-Petrech near the village of Moravany nad Váhom in Slovakia.
It is made of mammoth tusk ivory and is dated to 22,800 BP,[1] (the Gravettian).
A copy of this Venus currently resides in the Bratislava Castle exposition of the Slovak National Museum.[2]