Vas ceramic

Ceramic vessel, "Cucuteni-Tripolie" culture, phase A-2, 4th-3rd millennium BC Geometric ornament, divided into three spaces: the upper, middle and lower part. The upper part of the vessel - ornamented to the center and represents stylized figures in the shape of the letter: "S", brown and brick in color. These stylized figures are horizontal in shape (the stylization occupies about 2/3 of the surface of the vessel). The middle ornament is made up of spiral lines of the same color. The lower part of the vessel is not ornamented. Functionality: probably more ritualistic than utilitarian. The piece is very rare in the Prut-Dniester interfluve, its originality consisting in the painting style, rarely encountered. Similar specimens were discovered in the Far East region, in Japan and China, proof of the particularly vast area of the spread of this culture, or of the existing connections between the Dnieper-Carpathian geographical spaces and the Far East.