A VESSEL WITH PAINTED SYMBOLS FROM THE GUMELNIȚA CULTURE Cover Image

UN VAS CU SIMBOLURI PICTATE DIN CULTURA GUMELNIȚA
A VESSEL WITH PAINTED SYMBOLS FROM THE GUMELNIȚA CULTURE

Author(s): Ana Ilie
Subject(s): Archaeology, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Ancient World, History of Art
Published by: Editura Muzeului Municipiului Bucuresti
Keywords: vessel;white paintings;symbol;ritual;house;Gumelnița culture;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is a bowl discovered at the Gumelniţa settlement from Moara din Groapă, during rescue archaeological research carried out in 1976. The bowl displays a white symbol on its outer bottom - a double sign so far unknown among the variety of paint and incised signs found on the Kodjadermen-Gumelnița-Karanovo VI pottery. The Gumelnița culture (part of the Kodjadermen-Gumelnița-Karanovo VI cultural complex) is generally characterized by undecorated or minimally plastic decorated pottery, although it is better known by a series of very expressive anthropomorphic and zoomorphic vessels, or by those decorated with graphite, and the bicolored or extremely seldom, trichrome painted vessels. In this context, this vessel is an outstanding find.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 101-117
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian
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