Venus of Moravany

The Venus of Moravany (Slovak: Moravianska venuša) is a small prehistoric female figurine discovered in Slovakia in the early 20th century. It was ploughed up sometime before 1930 by the farmer Štefan Hulman-Petrech in Podkovica near the village of Moravany nad Váhom in Slovakia. It is made of mammoth tusk ivory and is dated to 22,800 BCE, (the Gravettian). A copy of this Venus currently resides in the Bratislava Castle exposition of the Slovak National Museum.

Venus of Moravany

The Venus of Moravany (Slovak: Moravianska venuša) is a small prehistoric female figurine discovered in Slovakia in the early 20th century. It was ploughed up sometime before 1930 by the farmer Štefan Hulman-Petrech in Podkovica near the village of Moravany nad Váhom in Slovakia. It is made of mammoth tusk ivory and is dated to 22,800 BCE, (the Gravettian). A copy of this Venus currently resides in the Bratislava Castle exposition of the Slovak National Museum.