Iconography

ERANOS ARCHIVE

39-40. Fish Symbolism

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Flora and Fauna / Animals / Fish, shellfish, and other marine creatures / Miscellaneous

SOCIAL LIFE

Fishing / Fishing with nets

Further details

Eranos Archive 39/14 Wooden net sinker, 8.7 cm. From Wauwilermoos pile dwelling settlement (Egolzwil 3), Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Image from Kühn, H. (1935) Die vorgeschichtliche kunst Deutschlands. Berlin: Im Propyläen-verlag. (fig. 234) The piece was unearthed by J. Meyer in 1910 in a peat cutting south of the Rhône Canal

Artist or creator

Swiss

Date

5000 BC - 500 BC No date

Location

Basle, Museum der Kulturen (Inv. Nr. 9607)

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

Contact

For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk
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