Stone vessel with remnants of Bronze Age paint (Levoberezhnoe settlement)
The paper descripted of a stone vessel made of limonite jode and intended for storage of mineral paint. According to the results of mineralogical study, we examined that the basis of the red-brown pigment is hematite. Quartz, feldspar, barite and possibly calcite, sericite and kaolinite were used as fillers for the paint. The paint was made by thoroughly grinding the natural raw materials. The mineral mixture in the powder is heterogeneous in terms of the size of the components.