House mark.

Archaeologists have been searching for it a long time, and now it has finally been documented: a house mark carved into a barrel lid. House marks are symbols composed of geometric shapes that identified the owner or manufacturer of a good or object. In a largely illiterate society, these symbols were important means of communication.

Although the mark encountered here is not entirely complete, there is a chance to identify the person or workshop behind this mark through more intensive research.

Foto: F. Rösch