New Find of an Altar from the Neolithic Settlement of Smilčić

U članku se raspravlja o novom nalazu dvaju keramičkih ulomaka s neolitičkog nalazišta Barice u Smilčiću pronađenih pri iskopavanju 2016./2017. Ulomci pripadaju keramičkom predmetu koji svojim oblikovnim karakteristikama pokazuje izrazitu sličnost s krovovima keramičkih modela nastambi poznatih s niza neolitičkih nalazišta na području jugoistočne Europe. Budući da se svi slični nalazi interpretiraju kao posebna vrsta žrtvenika, i nalaz iz Smilčića mogao bi pripadati istoj skupini nalaza, tim prije što je s istog nalazišta poznat jedan sličan primjerak pronađen u nepoznatom kontekstu na iskopavanjima 1956. – 1959. i 1962. S obzirom na motive izvedene na uščuvanim dijelovima stijenki, nalaz je opredijeljen u srednji neolitik i pripisan danilskoj kulturi.The paper discusses a new find of two ceramic fragments from the Neolithic site of Barice in Smilčić recovered in the 2016/17 excavations. The sherds belong to a pottery object that in its morphological characteristics exhibits distinct similarity to roofs of the ceramic house models recorded at a number of sites in the region of southeastern Europe. As all previously recovered finds were interpreted as a special kind of an altar, the find from Smilčić might also belong to the same group of finds, all the more since a similar find was found in an unknown context in the excavations in 1956/59 and 1962. The find was dated to the Middle Neolithic and attributed to the Danilo culture on the basis of motifs executed on the preserved parts of the walls