Route: Motherhood
 

 
Artefact's name: Kourotropos
  
Museum of: Bucharest
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Romania
Chronology: 5000 BC
  
Period: Late Neolithic
  
The figurine depicts one of the oldest representations of the motherhood
 
 
 

 
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: 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: Rattle
  
Museum of: Berlin
  
Object type: Other
Country: Germany
Chronology: 11 - 8 century BC
  
Period: Late Bronze Age
  
Rattle in form of a lemon with holes
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: The Kourotrophos (Nurse)
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Greece
Chronology: 4800-4500BC
  
Period: Late Neolithic
  
Seated woman with a baby in her arms
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Venus from Willendorf
 
Museum of: Wien
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Austria
Chronology: 25000 bc
  
Period: Upper Palaeolithic
  
One of the finest examples of palaeolithic sculpture representing a naked women with heavy breasts and prominent belly.