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thumb The Broddenbjerg idol is a wooden ithyphallic figure found in a bog at Broddenbjerg, near Viborg, Denmark and now in the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. It is dated to approximately 535–520 BCE. The figure was discovered in a bog in spring 1880 by someone cutting peat. It is carbon-dated to approximately 535–520 BCE, the later Bronze Age, making it the oldest such figure in Denmark;〔("Guden fra Broddenbjerg" ), Nyt fra fortiden 〕〔Klaus Ebbesen, ("Moseguder og gudinder" ), ''Dagbladet Information'', 8 May 2002 〕 prior to testing, it had been dated later, to the Roman Iron Age.〔H. R. Ellis Davidson, ''Pagan Scandinavia'', Ancient Peoples and Places 58, London: Thames and Hudson, 1967, , (p. 78 ).〕〔Francesco Menotti, ''Wetland Archaeology and Beyond: Theory and Practice'', Oxford: Oxford University, 2012, ISBN 9780199571017, (p. 193 ).〕〔Ole Klindt-Jensen, David M. Wilson and Eva Wilson, ''Denmark Before the Vikings'', Ancient Peoples and Places 4, London: Thames and Hudson, 1957, , (p. 80 ).〕 It is made of an oak branch which was undoubtedly chosen for its shape and is approximately high,〔N. Price, "Sexualität", in: ''Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde'', ed. Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenich and Heiko Steuer, volume 28 ''Seddin–Skīringssal'', 2nd ed. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 9783110182071, (p. 245 ).〕 with no arms, two legs formed by the natural branches, and an erect penis approximately long, the head of which has been marked off by scoring.〔 One leg is broken off; the other is tapered, so that the figure would presumably have been placed upright in the marshy ground.〔〔 At the top a face has been carved, with a pointed chin which may indicate a beard;〔 this has been seen as an indication that the figure was created by a Celtic culture.〔 The right eye is much more fully indicated than the left, which is only a line; several other such carved figures also have asymmetrical faces.〔J. John M. Coles and Bryony Coles, ''Enlarging the Past: The Contributions of Wetland Archaeology'', Monograph series 11, WARP occasional paper 10, Edinburgh: The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Wetland Archaeology Research Project, 1996, ISBN 9780903903110, (p. 74 ).〕〔Miranda Aldhouse-Green, ''An Archaeology of Images: Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe'', London/New York: Routledge, 2004, ISBN 9780415252539, (p. 183 ).〕 A line beneath the face may indicate a neck-ring or the top of clothing.〔〔 Resin had been applied to the groin area and the phallus.〔〔 It is one of the best known from Denmark of a group of presumed cult images that have been found mainly in wetlands and peat bogs throughout northern and central Europe.〔 An altar-like arrangement with stones for grinding corn and clay vessels which may have contained food for offerings were found beside it.〔〔〔 ==See also== *Dagenham idol 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Broddenbjerg idol」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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