# What were the signs for: ownership, potters' marks, counting, ritual, or something else? · Vinča signs

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# What were the signs for: ownership, potters' marks, counting, ritual, or something else?

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About 95 per cent of well-recorded inscribed objects come from houses and their pits, and signs occur in every house examined, so the signs were part of domestic life rather than of a shrine or an administration⁠[[1]](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDM6KDA4ZV/if-the-vinca-script-once-really-existed-who-could-have). A quarter of signs sit on vessel bases, where potters' and owners' marks go; comb motifs that look like tallies make up about a sixth⁠[[2]](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMNMGY359/ist-die-donauschrift-schrift-eine-systematische-untersuchung)⁠[[3]](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDNTCTVP19/vinca-symbols-wikipedia-article). Chapman reads the marks as household marks in an economy without record-keeping; Gimbutas read the same marks on figurines as sacred⁠[[4]](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDN1DYWG0V/the-vinca-culture-of-south-east-europe-studies-in-chronology)⁠[[5]](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMNFT1DJR/the-civilization-of-the-goddess-the-world-of-old-europe).

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