A triple vessel
The burial ground at the Novosvobodnaya stanitsa (former Tsarist), Maikop district, Republic of Adygea
The Bronze Age
Maykop culture
Clay
Height – 19,1 cm, total diameter – 54 cm
From: excavations by V.A. Trifonovand N.I. Shishlina, 2014
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The red ware vessel consists of tree interconnected vessels. Each vessel is plane-bottomed with roundish trunk passing to a short throat. On the shoulders of these vessels an oval print ornament forming parallel sets of “herring-bone” is placed. It was found in the forechamber (anterior burial chamber) of a huge burial mound of the end of the IV millennium BC – one of the most famous burials of the early bronze age.
According to the tests this burial vessel was filled with clean water.
For the antiquities of the foothills of the Caucasus at the end of the IV millennium BC such a triple vessel is unique.
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