Pásztor Emília (szerk.): Sámánizmus és természethit régen és ma - Bajai dolgozatok 23. (Baja, 2019)

Peter Toth: Rituális tevékenység Szlovákiában a neolitikum és rézkor idején

Ritual practices in the Neolithic and Eneolithic in Slovakia

The earliest anthropomorphic vessel is known from Vel'kÿ Kÿr (former Milanovce) and is dated to the Early LBK. It depicts a human head with plastically formed hair and indicated face. On another fragment of the vessel was discovered a stylized human figure made by drawing. Three-dimensional depiction of the human body was found on a vessel fragment in Cataj. Arms of the figure encircled the rim of the vessel (Pavúk 1981, 42, 48).

Two anthropomorphic vessels are famous from a settlement of the Zeliezovce group in Blatné. In a shallow pit was found a vessel, whose substantial part is comprised of a face lying on two massive feet. Second pottery was located at the bottom of a storage pit. A silhouette of the human body leaned on huge feet. Male gender was plastically depicted (Pavúk 1981, 38-40). Human face representations on vessels are typical for the Zeliezovce group (fig. 9). Their characteristic trait is a triangular composition. Below the face, there are two lines which are part of an M-sign and could depict a highly stylized human figure (legs). The meaning of this motif is not entirely clear. It was suggested they could symbolize a woman body in a birthgiving position (Pavúk 1981, 54). Other researchers think (based on Near Eastern parallels) that individual

Fig. 8. Female statue from Vcelince, dated to the Ózd-Piliny culture (after Furmánek 2004,16).

8. kép. Női szobrocska Vcelinceből. Ózd-Piliny kultúra (Furmánek 2004,16 nyomán).

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