1800-year-old Roman Goddess Venus Statue in Zadar Discovered at Future Hotel SiteSmiljan Gluščević
Posted on 01/23/2022 11:07:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A statue of the Roman goddess Venus was found on the construction site of a future hotel in the center of Zadar, about a meter high, preserved from the knees to below the chest, made of marble, and about 1800 years old, reports Slobodna Dalmacija.
"Academician Nenad Cambi, our greatest expert on antiquity, believes that it is most likely a statue of the goddess Venus. Its full height was about two meters, and it was probably on a pedestal in the atrium of this ancient urban villa where we are now," said Smiljan Gluščević.
A statue of the Roman goddess of beauty, love, fertility, and sexuality was found at a depth of about two meters, and stone fragments of a large base, most likely a crown, were discovered in the immediate vicinity...
As soon as Venus was taken out of the earth, it was clear to archaeologists that they had discovered a "sensation." It was immediately separated from other artifacts and transferred to the depot of the Homeland Museum in Biograd na Moru. An agreement was signed on the disposal of all finds at the investigation site...
The location of the villa and the details of the mosaic coincided with the results of research by Professor Boris Ilakovac 60 years ago. Before constructing the neighboring building of Božidar Rašica, he researched the foundations of buildings demolished during and after the Second World War.
Professor Ilakovac found two villas in a row there; they touched each other's outer walls and had an identical mosaic decoration in the atrium. All this tells us that here, a hundred meters from the ancient Forum, several representative residential buildings were later, possibly in the early Middle Ages, demolished and only now being revealed in their full beauty.
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1800-year-old Roman Goddess Venus Statue in Zadar Discovered at Future Hotel SiteSmiljan Gluščević
That must have been considered either the most important part, or the prettiest part, of her.
I surely can’t disagree.
Loads of these Roman-era statues were rendered into lime mortar, bit by bit; could be the renderer saved this bit for last, then just didn’t want to do it. ;^)
Looks like something i might expect to find in the ruins of an inner city Nordstrom after a reset.
“Loads of these Roman-era statues were rendered into lime mortaR.”
I never knew that. What a staggering loss.
It looks like the torso is on a slag heap.
Are you serious? Never heard that before.
WOOOOW!!!
“Sorry, check-in isn’t for another 5 years.”
Yup...thats a Venus, alright...you can tell by the belly button...
Probably in much the same way that a signifigant portion of the colosseum now resides in Rome’s many churches.
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Most likely smashed by early Christians who disfigured countless statutes, mosaics, wall paintings etc.
Destroyed by Muslim invaders as non-Islamic?
“That must have been considered either the most important part, or the prettiest part, of her.”
The ancient texts on this are quite clear: Venus was a babe.
That would be a great piece of art to display in lighted glass case in the hotel lobby.
the construction site of a future hotel in the center of Zadar, about a meter high,
Pretty small hotel, Croatian dwarf motel?
Daniel 2:32 The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs were bronze, 33its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.…
Daniel 2..
Belly and thighs- bronze..
Interesting that this remnant has one of the segments/parts that is described in a famous statue in Daniel..
“A body of Venus, with arms”
—Bon Scott
Freegards
They have a very nice archaeological museum in Zadar so that is the logical place for this statue to be exhibited.
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