Pottery mark with a Rurikid personal symbol from Staraya Ryazan

The paper publishes a fragment of a clay pot from the excavationsin Staraya Ryazan with a pottery mark on the bottom featuring a personal legal familycrest (the symbol of the Rurikids). The attribution of the sign to a princely family is notdisputable. Typologically it is closer to the earlier signs (dated to the turn of the 11th century),though it dates not earlier than the 12th century. The use of such signs as pottery marksmeans that they are closely connected to personal symbols used to denote legal propertyrights over various items.