Published: 2024-12-17

Eneolithic grave with vessels of the so-called milk jug type from Zakrzowiec, site 7, Wieliczka district, Lesser Poland

Agnieszka Brzeska-Zastawna , Beata Grabowska , Tomasz Rodak , Albert Zastawny
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Section: Field Survey and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/76.2024.2.3770

Abstract

In 2005, during rescue archaeological excavations preceding the building of the A-4 motorway, at site no. 7 in Zakrzowiec, Wieliczka district, an object interpreted as a grave of the Wyciąże-Złotniki group of the Lengyel-Polgár complex was discovered. A human skeleton has not been preserved. The grave furnishings consisted of two amphorae of the “milk jug” type (German term: milchtopf, Hungarian term: tejesköcsög). Vessels of this type belong to the basic taxonomic distinction of the Wyciąże-Złotniki group and are known from both graves and settlement sites. One of the vessels from the grave in Zakrzowiec has a unique decoration in the form of Scheibenhenkel type handles and a circumferential zigzag pattern formed of short engraved lines. This is the first such decoration on “milk jug” type amphorae known from the Lesser Poland region.

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Eneolithic, milk jug, Milchtopf, Scheibenhenkel, Lengyel-Polgár, Wyciąże-Złotniki group, burial

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Brzeska-Zastawna, A., Grabowska, B., Rodak, T., & Zastawny, A. (2024). Eneolithic grave with vessels of the so-called milk jug type from Zakrzowiec, site 7, Wieliczka district, Lesser Poland. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 76(2), 227–251. https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/76.2024.2.3770

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