Unearthed from a settlement of the Baden culture. Ritual animal burials, two contracted skeletal graves and a carved stela were also found at this site.

Morphology of the object:

Showing anthropomorphic characteristics, this idol fragment remains from the waist down to the middle of the thighs, emphasizing the female sexual characteristics.

The front side of the fragment is decorated with pressed-in parallel triangles, that emphasize the female sexual characteristics. The rear side shows decoration made up of incised zigzag lines. Pressed lines run along the waist of the fragment at both right and left.

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Analogies can be found from the Baden culture circle: from 40 sites 91 similar objects were found. In Hungary 15 excavational sites have yielded such artefacts; the following are examples from the Carpathian Basin region: Budapest-Corvin tér, Aparthant (Tolna county), Balatonöszöd (Somogy county), Esztergom (Komárom-Esztergom county). Examples also from the Cernavodă III. culture circle where from 4 sites 18 objects have been excavated. An example from the Lower Danube region is: Cernavodă; examples from the Southern Balkan region are which can be connected to the early and middle phases of the Rachmani culture: Maliq, Šuplevec, Bakarno Gumno.

The main characteristics of clay figures without heads (or interchangeable heads) are the 1 to 2, more rarely 3 deep holes where the head should be. According to some interpretations, interchangeable heads made of clay or wood were placed into these, but it is possible that other organic materials, for example blades of wheat were used instead. The statuettes are schematic, the arms are not represented, the legs are usually closed together. The female sexual characteristics are usually strongly emphasized by varied decorational techniques, thus the breasts and the pubic region are depicted, the roundness of the buttocks is less frequently portrayed, the rear side of the idols being mostly flat. A common decoration of such clay figurines is the cross-strap running over the breasts and back, which appear as symbols of power. A fragment of an idol found at Tököl (Hungary) has an incised sign on its back resembling a Mesopotamian pictogram, which could possibly refer to tattoos in use at the time. Such headless (or interchangeable headed) idols might have stood on the altars of domestic shrines.

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