Plaster copy of a clay vessel

The goblet decorated with bands of circumferential punctures and rafter motifs made with a two-toothed tool is a plaster copy of a clay vessel discovered in a grave from the mid-fifth millennium BC, made at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s. The grave was discovered in autumn 1927 during the construction of a sewage system on Winne Hill (German: Weinberg) in the northern part of Pyrzyce. Two earthenware vessels and fragments of two other vessels, characteristic of the Incised Ware culture, were excavated. The unique find aroused so much interest that a regional guardian of historical monuments searched the place of discovery. He then found a stone axe but failed to observe traces of burial. On the same Hill, fragments of the Linear Band Ware culture vessels were also discovered, which testify to the existence of the oldest agricultural communities in Pomerania. The grave furnishings were the first acquisition in the collection of the then established museum in Pyrzyce. Unfortunately, one of the vessels was lost shortly after its discovery, before it found its way to the Pyrzyce collection, and the rest was destroyed at the end of World War II when the museum building burnt down. In the Szczecin collections, there are faithful copies, made before the war, of a goblet decorated with a stab ornament and a stone axe. Only single early Neolithic graves are known from West Pomerania. All of them come from the Pyrzyce area, the most intensively settled region. Burials found before World War II in settlement of this culture near Pyrzyce are connected with the older communities from this region - the Linear Band Ware culture. The funerary rites of younger cultures with ribbon ceramics are also known from a richly furnished burial discovered in nearby Karsk.

Krzysztof Kowalski