Decorated goblet

A clay cup with a shape and ornamentation characteristic for the younger communities of the rope pottery culture was discovered in 1932 on a dune located between the hamlet of Żdżary (German: Eichberg) and the river Ina. It was donated to the collection of the Provincial Museum of Pomeranian Antiquities (Provinzialmuseum Pommerscher Altertümer) in Szczecin by a teacher Hugo Rehbein in August of the same year. The goblet was found during a minor investigation carried out a few months after the discovery of two other goblets, one by Albert Thoms, a farmer from Modrzewo, while picking sand, and the other by a schoolgirl while playing on the same dune. The vessels probably came from destroyed graves. H. For many years Rehbein searched for archaeological sources in the vicinity of the Ina Valley near Żdżary. He was assisted by his students and the forester Materna from the Goleniów Forestry Commission, who in turn recorded archaeological finds in the area of Miękowo. A negligible part of the artefacts from Żdżarów were taken to Szczecin. Others were left in the local school building, which was bombed in 1945. The only thing that remained of the monuments was a drawing documentation made by H. Rehbein in 1942, which after the Second World War was handed over to the collections in Hamburg. On its basis he prepared an article, which appeared in a collective publication devoted to pre-war archaeological discoveries in Pomerania published in 1964 and 1969. The artefacts transferred to Szczecin included three cups of the rope pottery culture found between 1931 and 1932 on the dune called "Kleiner Heideberg". Interestingly, H. Rehbein made in 1935 a list of place names (toponyms) from the Goleniów area, including also the nearest villages and buildings, in which he did not include the name of this dune. He noted, however, the names "Schalmweg" and "Judendamm", which he had used earlier in describing the location of the finds.

Krzysztof Kowalski