Ulla Rajala11h ago
Two grave markers from Etruria. On show in the Antikmuseet in Aarhus. #FindsFriday
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻6d ago
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `The context of the famous Mšecké Žehrovice Head`s discovery, clarified by major excavations carried out between 1979 and 1988, is significant: it is a privileged settlement consisting of several adjacent platforms, bounded by embankments and ditches.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻6d ago
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Three-dimensional depictions of animals appeared on all sorts of every-day objects. Small statues were also common, and were all skilfully cast using the lost-wax technique. Large game animals such as boars, stags and roe-deer, horses and oxen were preferred subjects. The simplified style of these ornaments often makes it impossible to identify the exact species portrayed. Line drawings, while much less common, use the same stylised depictions of these animals.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte
Show thread1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻6d ago
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Pointed daggers with anthropomorphic handles were rarer than the more common long swords, and used only by the aristocracy. The inlaid gold moons on the top of the blade are further evidence of the high status attached to these weapons. With its hilt shaped to suggest four limbs and a painstakingly detailed beardless face, this is a truly human-looking weapon. It is easy to imagine these daggers being identified with a deity or a spirit, who would be asked to render the bearer invincible. Manufactured using the same lost-wax casting technique, human heads were also used to decorate chariots, being added to linch-pins attaching the wheel to the axles.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻6d ago
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `An extraordinary group of sculptures was discovered buried in ditches in the most imposing fortifications enclosing an aristocratic residence occupied between the sixth and first centuries BCE. All the statues are made from the same rare, hard-wearing stone, and in the same style, indicating that they belong together as a group. They may have been intended to honour the ancestors of the family which occupied the fortress. `
Source: Le musée de Bibracte
Ulla RajalaJun 19
The Etruscans had food in the tomb that finished the funerary ritual. These bucchero vessels are of the type typical to late Chiusi. On show in the Antikmuseet in Aarhus. #FindsFriday
Show thread1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Jun 12
#FindsFriday #Celtic: Dawing of the Vercelli boundary stone after Lejeune 1988. `It bears the same text in Gaulish and Latin: "Boundary marking the area which Acisios Argantocomaterecos dedicated jointly to the gods and to men, (an area defined) by the manner in which the boundary stones, numbering four, were erected.
Etruscan script, itself derived from an archaic Greek alphabet, was used by the Cisalpine Gauls to write their language. Other Celtic-speaking peoples had gone before them in this regard, as evidenced by the so-called Iepontic funerary inscriptions from the Lugano region, the oldest of which
date from around 500 BCE.
Source: Le musée de Bibracte
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Jun 12
#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: `The banquet service features utensils whose quality reflects the prestige of their owner. The centrepiece is the yew-wood bucket, whose embossed hoops and solid handle fittings often display intricate decoration. The large serving ladles are adorned with bovine heads featuring prominent horns.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Jun 12
#FindsFriday #Celtic: Dawing of the Vercelli boundary stone after Lejeune 1988. `It bears the same text in Gaulish and Latin: "Boundary marking the area which Acisios Argantocomaterecos dedicated jointly to the gods and to men, (an area defined) by the manner in which the boundary stones, numbering four, were erected.
Etruscan script, itself derived from an archaic Greek alphabet, was used by the Cisalpine Gauls to write their language. Other Celtic-speaking peoples had gone before them in this regard, as evidenced by the so-called Iepontic funerary inscriptions from the Lugano region, the oldest of which
date from around 500 BCE.
Source: Le musée de Bibracte
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻Jun 12
#FindsFriday #Celtic: Drawing of a Gallo-Greek inscription: "Segomaros, son of Villonos, citizen of Nîmes, dedicated this sacred lyre to Belesama". `The Greek
script was introduced into southern Gaul by settlers from Phocaea (Asia Minor) who founded Marseille around 600 BCE.
It was only from the 3rd century onwards that the people of western Provence and eastern Languedoc began to use the Greek alphabet to transcribe their language onto funerary and religious inscriptions. This practice reached Burgundy at the beginning of the 1st century BCE, as shown
by the graffiti on pottery from Bibracte.`
Source: Le musée de Bibracte