This is one of the most complete pots with the so called symbolic decoration from Perdigões. It was collected at the atrium of Tomb 2 and is dated from the third quarter of the 3rd millennium BC. It presents two sun eyes and over them two nipples. In each side of the nipples there are the zigzag facial tattoos. The decoration is completed with vertical stripes of lunulae.
(Photo copyright A.C. Valera / Era Arqueologia)
(Drawing copyright Carlos Lemos / Era Arqueologia)
These well decorated pots, presenting several of the attributes of Chalcolithic symbolic iconography, can be found spread all over south Iberia.
Picture and drawing first published
here.
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