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

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