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: 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: Bone pendant with circular indentations
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Jwellery
Country: Italy
Chronology: 6300-5900 BP
 
Period: Middle Neolithic
 
Rectangular fragment of a small plate made out of bone, decorated with several lines of holes.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Pintadera
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Tool
Country: Italy
Chronology: 5800-5400 BP
 
Period: Middle Neolithic
 
Oval shaped, quite elongated pintadera made out of a black clay.The pintaderas are traditionally interpreted as tattoo instruments, but they could be also textile stamps or systems of reconnaissance in...
 
 
 

 
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: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 2
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Other
Country: Italy
Chronology: 2000-1800 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age
 
tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice.
 
 
 

 
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: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 1
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Other
Country: Italy
Chronology: 2000-1800 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age
 
tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice.
 
 
 

 
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: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 3
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Other
Country: Italy
Chronology: 2000-1800 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age
 
tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Bell Beaker Cup from Santa Cristina di Fiesse
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Italy
Chronology: -
 
Period: Late Eneolithic
 
Cup characterized by its bell shaped feature, open mouthed rim, globular body and curved base. The body presents typical Bell Beaker decorations.
 
 
 

 
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.