Vessel with the Tree of life
- Inventory number:
- АР-162
- Creation Date:
- 4th - 3rd millennia BC
- Place of Creation:
- Koshylivtsi village, Ternopil region
- Provenance:
- Lviv Historical Museum
- Technique:
- molding
- Size:
- 5 x 7 cm
- Material:
- clay
- Type of object:
- Vessel
- Subject:
- Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
The vessel is pear-shaped with a small flat bottom, slightly flared rim, and two small round handles. In the middle, at the widest part, two concentric circles are painted in brown, from which six depictions of plants with branches extend. The rim of the vessel is outlined with concentric circles on the outside. Archaeologist Vikentiy Khvoyka discovered the first Cucuteni-Trypillian settlement in present-day Ukraine in 1893–1894 on 55 Kyrylivska Street in Kyiv. However, the culture was named after the village of Trypillia of Kyiv Region. The area of its spread in Eastern Europe ranged from the Dnipro River to the Carpathians, from Polissia to the Black Sea and the Balkan Peninsula. The settlements of the Trypillians covered a significant area and are referred to as proto-cities. One of the distinguishing features of this culture was the burning of their homes, which could have been caused by soil depletion, a lack of resources for livestock grazing, or perhaps it had a ritual significance. The Trypillians were primarily engaged in cultivation, grain farming, fishing, pottery, weaving, metallurgy (including copper processing), and animal husbandry.
