Sacred Images of ancient Romania
Clay goddesses have been excavated from Cîrna and other sites in Romania and over the border in northern Bulgaria. They show women standing with their hands to the center and incised with spirals, plant symbols, dotted patterns, and other symbols. They seem designed for placement on altars.
Many have punctillated patterns within a vulvic triangle.
Oltenia, Romania, circa 1600 to 1200 BCE.
Another broken figurine from Oltenia, with abstract face.
Like many, this figurine has a necklace with apparent plant
patterns and spirals on her chest. From Círna.
Again, spirals on the chest, a pillar-like head, but arms
only suggested, and the skirt has vertical patterns. Orsoja, Bulgaria.
