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[[Image:Cambon Salverguettes menhir.jpg|thumb|220px|Example of a '''[[statue menhir]]''', a rough counterpart to the Big Mama stela.]]
The '''Big Mama stela''' is one of a group of [[stele|stelae]] from the [[Arco, Trentino|Arco]] area of northwestern Italy. The stele may be associated with the culture to which [[Otzi the Iceman]] is archaeologically linked.


'''Arco I''' is a [[Copper Age]] [[statue menhir]] discovered near [[Arco, Trentino]] in the [[Italian Alps]]. The stela, discovered in 1989, is 215 cm high and carved from [[limestone]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pedrotti |first=Annaluisa |date=1995 |title=Le statue-stele e le stele antropomorfe del trentino Alto Adige e del Veneto occidentale: gruppo atesino, gruppo di Brentonico, gruppo della Lessinia |url=https://www.academia.edu/download/36332424/PedrottiA1995__Le_statue-stele_e_le_stele_antropomorfe_del_Trentino_Alto_Adige_e_del_Veneto_occidentale._Gruppo_at.pdf |journal=NOTIZIE ARCHEOLOGICHE BERGOMENSI |language=Italian |volume=3 |pages=259–280}}</ref> It depicts a heavily-armed, apparently male figure with seven daggers, three axes, three halberds and an ornamental necklace.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Harris |first=Susanna |last2=Hofmann |first2=Kerstin P. |date=2014-01 |title=From Stones to Gendered Bodies: Regional Differences in the Production of the Body and Gender on the Copper Age Statue-Menhirs of Northern Italy and the Swiss Valais |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-archaeology/article/abs/from-stones-to-gendered-bodies-regional-differences-in-the-production-of-the-body-and-gender-on-the-copper-age-statuemenhirs-of-northern-italy-and-the-swiss-valais/D436653496073A98E2DD1741E1C3DFD9 |journal=European Journal of Archaeology |language=en |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=264–285 |doi=10.1179/1461957114Y.0000000054 |issn=1461-9571}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Priuli |first=Ausilio |title=Arms and the Armed: The Evocative Ritual Language in Val Camonica Rock Art |date=2023 |work=Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia: A Multi-perspective View on Sword Culture |pages=3–43 |editor-last=Chao |editor-first=Hing |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2037-0_1 |access-date=2024-01-23 |series=Martial Studies |place=Singapore |publisher=Springer Nature |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-981-19-2037-0_1 |isbn=978-981-19-2037-0 |editor2-last=Jaquet |editor2-first=Daniel |editor3-last=Kim |editor3-first=Loretta}}</ref> It is similar in style to other anthropomorphic stelae made across Europe between the [[4th millennium BC|4th]] or [[3rd millennium BC|3rd millennium BCE]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vierzig |first=Angelika |date=2020 |title=Anthropomorphic Stelae of the 4th and 3rd Millennia Between the Caucasus and the Atlantic Ocean |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-prehistoric-society/article/abs/anthropomorphic-stelae-of-the-4th-and-3rd-millennia-between-the-caucasus-and-the-atlantic-ocean/804684B0E0275FC5754A04EF72A448D3 |journal=Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society |language=en |volume=86 |pages=111–137 |doi=10.1017/ppr.2020.12 |issn=0079-497X}}</ref>
The stele is one of a group of six from the region. The Big Mama stele is {{convert|7|ft|m|0}} tall and made from [[sandstone]].<ref>''The Iceman, Lone Voyager from the Ice Age'', National Geographic, p. 60-61.</ref>

==List of Big Mama stela iconography==
The iconography of the Big Mama stela is as follows:

* a partial glyph (lower half of a star?) adorns the worn top edge of the stele
* Central vertical [[archaic dagger]] at upper center chest
* Necklace arced above dagger
* six horizontal daggers, three-by-three pointed towards chest midline
* [[archaic pin]]-([[fibula (brooch)]]-like), (flanked as 4th item above left three daggers)<ref>''The Iceman'', National Geographic, p. 60.</ref>
* two opposed-facing [[halberd]]s flanking vertical central dagger
** four facing vertical halberds<br>(all six halberds, are either three triangle-bladed, or three rectangle-bladed)
* four-segmented "corded belt", horizontally flanks the lower 4th of the stele's iconography

The seven ''archaic daggers'' have semi-circular, buttressed perpendicular handle terminations. The central vertical dagger handle termination is doubly ornamented. The corded belt may symbolize a ''"broad collar"'', that represents the 'agricultural field',<ref>''Slab [[cist]] and wedge tomb.'' [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~catshaman/022slab.htm]</ref> and mothering and sustenance.


==References==
==References==
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*''The Iceman, Lone Voyager from the Ice Age'', [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]], 1993, June, pp 36–67.


==External links==
==External links==
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*[http://www.comune.pisa.it/gr-archeologico/musvir/stele/e_arco1.htm Arco I], ''The Stelae-Statues of Lunigiana''
*[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~catshaman/022slab.htm Article and photo, '''''"Wedge tomb and slab cist"''''']
*[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~catshaman/02slabc-filer/mor.JPG Photo of stele]
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*[http://www.comune.pisa.it/gr-archeologico/musvir/stele/e_arco1.htm (alternate name of '''"Arco 1 stele"''', with description)]


[[Category:3rd-millennium BC steles]]
[[Category:3rd-millennium BC steles]]

Revision as of 09:00, 23 January 2024

Arco I is a Copper Age statue menhir discovered near Arco, Trentino in the Italian Alps. The stela, discovered in 1989, is 215 cm high and carved from limestone.[1] It depicts a heavily-armed, apparently male figure with seven daggers, three axes, three halberds and an ornamental necklace.[2][3] It is similar in style to other anthropomorphic stelae made across Europe between the 4th or 3rd millennium BCE.[4]

References

  1. ^ Pedrotti, Annaluisa (1995). "Le statue-stele e le stele antropomorfe del trentino Alto Adige e del Veneto occidentale: gruppo atesino, gruppo di Brentonico, gruppo della Lessinia" (PDF). NOTIZIE ARCHEOLOGICHE BERGOMENSI (in Italian). 3: 259–280.
  2. ^ Harris, Susanna; Hofmann, Kerstin P. (2014-01). "From Stones to Gendered Bodies: Regional Differences in the Production of the Body and Gender on the Copper Age Statue-Menhirs of Northern Italy and the Swiss Valais". European Journal of Archaeology. 17 (2): 264–285. doi:10.1179/1461957114Y.0000000054. ISSN 1461-9571. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ Priuli, Ausilio (2023), Chao, Hing; Jaquet, Daniel; Kim, Loretta (eds.), "Arms and the Armed: The Evocative Ritual Language in Val Camonica Rock Art", Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia: A Multi-perspective View on Sword Culture, Martial Studies, Singapore: Springer Nature, pp. 3–43, doi:10.1007/978-981-19-2037-0_1, ISBN 978-981-19-2037-0, retrieved 2024-01-23
  4. ^ Vierzig, Angelika (2020). "Anthropomorphic Stelae of the 4th and 3rd Millennia Between the Caucasus and the Atlantic Ocean". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 86: 111–137. doi:10.1017/ppr.2020.12. ISSN 0079-497X.
  • Arco I, The Stelae-Statues of Lunigiana
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