Painted amphora from Șuri

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This unique amphora was found in 1984 during the excavations of the Șuri I settlement of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture (5th-4th mill. BC), which existed in the Eneolithic era, in the mid-1st half of the 4th mill. BC, near the village of Șuri, Drochia District of the Republic of Moldova. In the classifications of Cucuteni-Trypillian painted pottery, it belongs to a separate type distinguished by archaeologists, known in the special literature under various names: facial urns, amphorae with an ornament of the “owl face” type, amphorae with facial ornament, facial amphorae.