Engraved sandstone piece from Kamyana Mohyla

3D Model

A large sandstone slab covered with desert varnish both from the top and back. Its front part is intensively covered with shallow non-figurative incisionis. The whole slab can be interpreted as a fish figurine. Black pigment and figurative depictions were added by V. Danilenko in 1974 and do not correspond to what is engraved on the piece.

Found in Churinga cave of Kamyana Mohyla, Ukraine

Museum ID: KM73-247

Object courtesy of the Institute of Archaeology of the NAS of Ukraine

Modeling was supported by the European Union’s Horizon Europe train and mobility actions programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101153375.

More info at: Radchenko, Simon. 2025. Rediscovered Mesolithic Rock Art Collection from Kamyana Mohyla Complex in Eastern Ukraine, Open Archaeology, 8(1), 114—131. DOI: 10.1515/opar-2022-0230.