File:02023 Urn with an artistic representation of a human face, around 600 BC — 400 BC, Pomerania.jpg
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It is decorated with a small cap-shaped lid, bronze earrings in the "ears", and round engravings, probably imitating necklaces. The ashtray comes from a square cist grave made of stone slabs.
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English: The most realistic depictions of faces on urns come from the Hallstatt period D (c. 650-450 BC); in subsequent centuries, they became less and less expressive, disappearing entirely by the 4th century BC. Face urns, like house ones, are a unique element of the Pomeranian culture, which developed in the early Iron Age in Eastern Pomerania, from where it spread over time to further areas. The origin of the face-shaped ashtrays can be traced back to the canopic jars (urns with a head-shaped cover) popular among the Etruscans inhabiting central Italy from around the 7th century BC to the 1st century AD. The idea reached Pomerania via central Germany and was also known in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia. |
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