A catalogue thematically linked to the exhibition entitled From Etruria to Pomerania? Facial ashtrays against the background of the funerary rites of the Pomeranian culture, presented in the Historical and Ethnographic Museum in Chojnice from June to October 2009, bring closer the archaeological knowledge of the so-called Pomeranian culture, initiated in the middle of the 6th century B.C., the visual symbol of which are facial ashtrays furnishing box graves. The catalogue discusses the temporal and territorial range of the occurrence of examples of this culture with an accompanying map of archaeological sites. The subject of the discussion is the characteristics of various forms of ash urns and their unique decorative motifs referring directly to elements of the human face, as well as the jewellery decorating it. The richly illustrated catalogue is accompanied by a list of 118 artefacts collected at the Człuchowska Gate exhibition from the following archaeological collections: Archaeological Museum in Gdańsk, District Museum in Bydgoszcz, Museum in Koszalin, Museum in Lębork, Institute of Archaeology at the University of Łódź Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum in Łódź and from the own collections of the H - E Museum in Chojnice. The author of the discussion in the catalogue is the curator of the exhibition, curator Hanna Rząska.

Chojnice 2009,
pages 22,
format 20 x 21,
price 7zł