Archaeologists have found a trove of artifacts, including two statues of the goddess Venus, in a Roman-era quarry-turned-trash-dump.
Archaeologists in France have discovered a trove of up to 1,800-year-old artifacts — including statuettes of the goddess Venus, a potter's kiln, coins and clothing pins — in a rare location: a Roman shale quarry that was later repurposed into a trash pit in what is now the city of Rennes.
Just outside the northern boundary of the ancient city, archaeologists found a Roman-era rock excavation site more than 6.5 feet deep, laid out in stages, from which the Romans extracted slabs of schist, a metamorphic rock commonly used in ancient building construction. The quarry excavation yielded a fragment of Venus genetrix that shows her torso draped in fabric. The second, more complete example is of Venus anadyomene ; she is nude and, with her right hand, she wrings water out of her hair.
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