Route: Religious Rituals
 

 
Artefact's name: Anthropomorphic statuette with pot on the head
  
Museum of: Bucharest
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Romania
Chronology: 4500-4000 BC
  
Period: Eneolithic
  
The figurine has a striking visual message materialized in its attitude
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Miniature sanctuary model
  
Museum of: Bucharest
  
Object type: Other
Country: Romania
Chronology: 4500-4000 BC
  
Period: Eneolithic
  
The artefact, made of grey-yellowish clay, is probably one of the oldest representations of a sanctuary
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Impressed ware with sun and two figures in adorati
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Italy
Chronology: 6800-6100 BP
  
Period: Early Neolithic
  
Large ovoidal shaped jar with four small horizontal handles, decorated with cardial impressions to represent a stylized man in worship, some spikes and the sun .
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Antropomorphic weight
  
Museum of: Sofia
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
  
Period: Neolithic
  
Oval shape, ellipsoidal base, shaft hole in the upper part.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Pintadera
  
Museum of: Sofia
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
  
Period: Chalcolithic
  
Stylized schematic anthropomorphic figurine in adoration on an elongated six-angled base.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Antropomorphic Figurine
  
Museum of: Sofia
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
  
Period: Bronze Age
  
The figurine has a shallow body, the torso is flat, the head is rhomboidal.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Vessel
  
Museum of: Sofia
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
  
Period: Neolithic
  
Sphere-like bottom part and high cylindrical neck.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Plate with incises
  
Museum of: Sofia
  
Object type: Other
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
  
Period: Neolithic
  
Rounded shape with a cone-like handle at the back side. At the front side - shallow incised signs. Brown-black surface
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Plate with incises and signs
  
Museum of: Sofia
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
  
Period: Chalcolithic
  
In the shape of shallow small vessel.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Cult scene
  
Museum of: Sofia
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
  
Period: Chalcolithic
  
The scene probably is a replica of a real existed sanctuary.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Bull’s shaped handle cup
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Animal figurine
Country: Italy
Chronology: 1100-1000 BC
  
Period: Late Bronze Age
  
Hemispherical shaped bronze cup with a vertical handle sourmonted by a bull's head.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Statuette of Favella
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Italy
Chronology: 6900 BP
  
Period: Early Neolithic
  
From the Early Neolithic village of Favella comes a set of pottery statuettes with a special emphasis on the sexual aspects of the motherhood
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Bell Beaker Ware cup
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Italy
Chronology: 2500-2200 BC
  
Period: Late Eneolithic Period
 
Short Bell Beaker style decorated cup, recovered from the Fosso Conicchio grave.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Marmotta’s Venus
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Italy
Chronology: 6800-6100 BP
  
Period: Early Neolithic Period
  
The so-called Marmotta’s Venus, a female carved stone figurine, was found by the underwater excavations in the village.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Venus of Savignano
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Italy
Chronology: 18000-10000 BP
  
Period: Late Paleolithic Period
  
The Savignano’s Venus is the Italian most famous prehistoric female figurine.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Askhos
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Animal figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 1250-800 BC
  
Period: Late Bronze Age
  
A horizontal oval-shaped vessel on a stand-ring.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Bell beaker
 
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 2500-2100 BC
  
Period: Early Bronze Age 2
  
Red-painted Bell Beaker from Budapest, Csepel Island.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Boot-shaped vessel
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 1250-800 BC
  
Period: Late Bronze Age
  
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Artefact's name: Double-faced vessel
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5200-4900 BC
  
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
  
The reconstructed bottle-shaped vessel.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Trumpet-shell horn
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Tool
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 3600-2800 BC
  
Period: Late Copper Age
  
Triton-shell horn from the late Copper age Baden culture
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Miniature jar
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 1st half 5th mil. BC
  
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
  
Round flanked small jar
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Facial vessel in the form of a sitting figure
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5200-4900 BC
  
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
  
This vessel thoroughly imitates the form of the human body.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Idol head fragment with headdress
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 2500-2200 BC
  
Period: Early Bronze Age 2
  
Idol fragment with headdress from the Early Bronze Age.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Female figurine
  
Museum of: Berlin
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Romania
Chronology: 4th mil. BC
  
Period: Upper Neolithic
  
Illustrations of mother deities as a symbol for fertility were widespread in Europe during the Upper Paleolithic und Neolithic periods.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Drum
  
Museum of: Berlin
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Germany
Chronology: 4th mil. BC
  
Period: Upper Neolithic
  
Drums made of clay and leather were be used during the Walternienburg-Bernburg period as music instruments.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Berlin Golden Hat
  
Museum of: Berlin
  
Object type: Other
Country: Unknown
Chronology: 11 - 9 century BC
  
Period: Hallstatt A-B
  
The Berlin Golden Hat can be interpreted as a headdress of a chieftain or a priest.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Belt plate
  
Museum of: Berlin
  
Object type: Other
Country: Poland
Chronology: 9 - 8 century BC
  
Period: Late Bronze Age
  
The plate is decorated with incised lines and point-fringed hemispheres.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Clay anthropomorphic vase
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Greece
Chronology: 4800-4500 BC
  
Period: Late Neolithic II
  
Clay anthropomorphic vase decorated with incisions.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Marble female figurine
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Greece
Chronology: 6500-5300 BC
  
Period: Early Neolithic
  
Marble, female,steatopygic figurine, probably a goddess or a priestess.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Stone anthropomorphic amulet
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Amulet
Country: Greece
Chronology: 5300-3300 BC
  
Period: Late Neolithic or Final...
  
Stone anthropomorphic amulet
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Stone horned amulet
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Amulet
Country: Greece
Chronology: 5300-4500BC
  
Period: Late Neolithic II
  
Stone anthropomorphic amulet
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Magic tools (Shaman artefacts)
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Tool
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 1000-900 BC
  
Period: Late
  
Magic tools from the Late Bronze Age cemetery at Budapest, Békásmegyer.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Double-faced vessel B
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5200-5000/4900 BC
  
Period: Middle
 
Neolithic Double-faced pot with "M" -shaped line framing the face from Budapest, Békásmegyer
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Fragment of faced pot
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Pest
Chronology: 4700-4600 BC
  
Period: Middle
 
Representation of Human face on the lip of a vessel from Neolithic
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Statuette of Favella B
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Italy
Chronology: 6900 BP
  
Period: Early Neolithic
  
The statuette representing a female figure was recovered mutilated at the basin level.