TYPOLOGY AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE FUNERARY ATTACHMENT VESSELS OF THE AESTIANS AND THE PRUSSIANS
The entire array of vessels collected in this article comes from the burials of the ground burial grounds of the Sambia Peninsula and its immediate environs. Finds of fragments of these attachment vessels (except for pots) at the Aestian settlements of the Roman period are extremely rare. This indicates the predominantly cult, ceremonial nature of these ceramic forms. The specificity of a number of types of attachment vessels indicates the participation in these events of the carriers of non-Balt cultural traditions who lived in the first half I send. AD among the estievs of the Amber Coast. The variety of forms of attachment vessels in the antiquities of the Aestians indicates a wide range of details of the funeral ceremonies in which these vessels were required. They were used to display liquid ingredients in burials, for liquid forms of food, for solid food, and for covering large vessels. With the spread of the Prussian archaeological culture among the western part of the Balts, the variety of attachment vessels is replaced by standardized biconical “temporary urns”.