Route: Symbols (Abstract and Geometrical)
 

 
Artefact's name: Pintadera
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Tool
Country: Italy
Chronology: 5800-5400 BP
  
Period: Middle Neolithic
 
Oval shaped, quite elongated pintadera made out of a black clay.The pintaderas are traditionally interpreted as tattoo instruments, but they could be also textile stamps or systems of reconnaissance in...
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Vessel
  
Museum of: Bucharest
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Romania
Chronology: 4000-3500 BC
  
Period: Eneolithic
  
Vessel made of clay painted with encoded geometrical decorative motifs
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Seal
  
Museum of: Sofia
  
Object type: Other
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
  
Period: Chalcolithic
  
The seal has a rounded shape with a cone-like handle in the back.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 2
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Other
Country: Italy
Chronology: 2000-1800 BC
  
Period: Early Bronze Age
  
tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 1
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Other
Country: Italy
Chronology: 2000-1800 BC
  
Period: Early Bronze Age
  
tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Bell Beaker Ware cup
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Italy
Chronology: 2500-2200 BC
  
Period: Late Eneolithic Period<
  
Short Bell Beaker style decorated cup, recovered from the Fosso Conicchio grave.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 3
  
Museum of: Rome
  
Object type: Other
Country: Italy
Chronology: 2000-1800 BC
  
Period: Early Bronze Age
  
tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Vessel with asymmetrical handle
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 2500-2100 BC
  
Period: Early Bronze Age
  
Asimmetric vessel from Szigetszentmiklós settlement site of the Bell Beaker Csepelgroup.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Bell beaker
 
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 2500-2100 BC
  
Period: Early Bronze Age 2
  
Red-painted Bell Beaker from Budapest, Csepel Island.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Double-faced vessel
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5200-4900 BC
  
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
  
The reconstructed bottle-shaped vessel.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Pot
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5th mil. BC
  
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
  
Medium sized, round flanked pot.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Miniature jar
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 1st half 5th mil. BC
  
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
  
Round flanked small jar
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Facial vessel in the form of a sitting figure
  
Museum of: Budapest
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5200-4900 BC
  
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
  
This vessel thoroughly imitates the form of the human body.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Belt plate
  
Museum of: Berlin
  
Object type: Other
Country: Poland
Chronology: 9 - 8 century BC
  
Period: Late Bronze Age
  
The plate is decorated with incised lines and point-fringed hemispheres.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Clay anthropomorphic vase
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Greece
Chronology: 4800-4500 BC
  
Period: Late Neolithic II
  
Clay anthropomorphic vase decorated with incisions.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Linear B Tablet
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Other
Country: Greece
Chronology: 13 century BC
  
Period: Late Helladic
  
Clay linear B Tablet.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Clay seal
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Tool
Country: Greece
Chronology: 5800-5400BC
  
Period: Middle Neolithic
 
Clay, conical seal with numerical symbols on the surface.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Marble female figurine
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Greece
Chronology: 6500-5300 BC
  
Period: Early Neolithic
  
Marble, female,steatopygic figurine, probably a goddess or a priestess.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Ring shaped amulet
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Amulet
Country: Greece
Chronology: 4500-3300BC
  
Period: Final Neolithic
  
Gold ring-shaped amulet of hammered sheet depicting a very schematised female figure.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Spindle - whorl
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Tool
Country: Greece
Chronology: 4500-3300BC
  
Period: Final Neolithic<
  
Clay discoid spindle-whorl with incised symbols, dated to the Late or the Final Neolithic period (4800-3300 BC).
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Stone anthropomorphic amulet
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Amulet
Country: Greece
Chronology: 5300-3300 BC
  
Period: Late Neolithic or Final...
  
Stone anthropomorphic amulet
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Stone horned amulet
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Amulet
Country: Greece
Chronology: 5300-4500BC
  
Period: Late Neolithic II
  
Stone anthropomorphic amulet
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Large stirrup jars with Linear B inscription
  
Museum of: Athens
  
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Greece
Chronology: 13 century BC
  
Period: Late Helladic
  
Clay wheel-made stirrup-jar bearing a Linear B inscription.