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Some years ago Marc Washington made a post which contained this image described as Goddess from Odessa, 500BC
Goddess from Odessa, 500BC
It is a detail from the bottom right corner of the larger picture below labelled African fine arts in Bulgaria before Alexander: 7000BC - 400BC
African fine arts in Bulgaria before Alexander: 7000BC - 400BC
Does anyone know the original source for the godess images?
the lioness, Member # 17353
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look up
1) bronze balsamarium roman
2) bronze balsamarium Greek
3) add the word "negro" or "African" to the above searches also "Odessa"
Before the Tsarist establishment of Odessa, an ancient Greek settlement existed at its location as elsewhere along the northwestern Black Sea coast. Odessa was the site of a large Greek settlement no later than the middle of the 6th century BC (a necropolis from the 5th–3rd centuries BC has long been known in this area). Some scholars believe it to have been a trade settlement established by the Greek city of Histria. Whether the Bay of Odessa is the ancient "Port of the Histrians" cannot yet be considered a settled question based on the available evidence. Archaeological artifacts confirm extensive links between the Odessa area and the eastern Mediterranean.
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