Venus of Petřkovice

Venus of Petřkovice
Replica of Venus of Petřkovice
MaterialHematite
SizeHeight: 4.5 cm
Created25,000 years
Discovered14 July 1953
Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Discovered byBohuslav Klíma
Present locationBrno, Czech Republic

The Venus of Petřkovice (Czech: Petřkovická venuše or Landecká venuše) is a pre-historic Venus figurine, a mineral statuette of a nude female figure, dated to about 23,000 BCE (Gravettian industry) in what is today the Czech Republic.

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