Vessel with the solar symbol
- Inventory number:
- Ар-143
- Creation Date:
- 2nd millennium BC
- Place of Creation:
- Komariv village, Ivano-Frankivsk region
- Provenance:
- Lviv Historical Museum
- Technique:
- molding
- Size:
- 7 x 8 cm
- Material:
- clay, paint
- Type of object:
- Vessel
- Subject:
- Komariv culture
It has a tulip-like shape. The neck flares out towards the rim. The bottom is narrow and flat. The vessel is painted brown. In the center, there are groups of concentric circles—symbols of the sun.
The Komariv culture is an archaeological culture dated to the late Bronze Age, widespread in the forest-steppe zone of Right-Bank Ukraine and northern Moldova. The name comes from a burial mound excavated by T. Sulimirskі in 1934–36 near the village of Komariv in Ivano-Frankivsk Region.
