Route: Animal imago
 

 
Artefact's name: Incised pebble with wolf images
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Amulet
Country: Italy
Chronology: 12000-10000 BC
 
Period: Late Epigravettian
 
The pebbele carved with the figure of the wolf is probably the masterpiece found in Grotta Polesini (Roma). The marks the marks that covered this figure are referable to cult activities finalized to propitiate...
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Ornitomorphic Vessel
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Bronze Age
 
The vessel has a shallow body. A head of a bird as well as tail and wings are presented in relief.
 
 
 

 
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: Engraving of a horse head
 
Museum of: Berlin
 
Object type: Animal figurine
Country: France
Chronology: 15000 BC
 
Period: Upper Paleolithic
 
The rib from the cave of Lalinde is decorated with head of a horse, one of the most popular motifs of the hunters of the Upper Paleolithic period.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Standard
 
Museum of: Berlin
 
Object type: Tool
Country: Germany
Chronology: 1000 BC
 
Period: Late Bronze Age
 
The standard of Heegermühle is a typical sign for the religion and cult of the Bronze Age.
 
 
 

 
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: 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: The Fox of Pietrele
 
Museum of: Bucharest
 
Object type: Animal figurine
Country: Romania
Chronology: 4500-4000 BC
 
Period: Eneolithic
 
The artefact is one of the most realistic Neolithic zoomorphic figurines