1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻#FairyTaleTuesday: `Although earlier studies (Jacobsthal (1944:46, De Navarro 1972:229) saw these motifs as evidence of orientalizing influences in early #Celtic art, or even as a direct Scythian introduction into eastern Central Europe, subsequent discoveries in the west have now rendered this view obsolete. The earliest incidence of a dragon-pair has conventionally been the example from an old and never fully published burial from Saint Jean-sur-Tourbe in the Marne, which should belong to an early La Tène phase (Harding 2007).`
Photo (https://bsky.app/profile/neu-kelte.bsky.social/post/3mjhsieww7l2s): Celtic sword in scabbard with dragon-pair motif, and detail of decoration – from a recently discovered Celtic warrior burial at Chens-Sur-Léman (Haute-Savoie), France (late 4th/early 3rd c. BC)
Source: https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/tag/celtic-dragon/
Photo (https://bsky.app/profile/neu-kelte.bsky.social/post/3mjhsieww7l2s): Celtic sword in scabbard with dragon-pair motif, and detail of decoration – from a recently discovered Celtic warrior burial at Chens-Sur-Léman (Haute-Savoie), France (late 4th/early 3rd c. BC)
Source: https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/tag/celtic-dragon/
1. Neu-Kelte (@neu-kelte.bsky.social)
#FairyTaleTuesday: `Although earlier studies (Jacobsthal (1944:46, De Navarro 1972:229) saw these motifs as evidence of orientalizing influences in early #Celtic art, or even as a direct Scythian introduction into eastern Central Europe, subsequent discoveries in the west have now rendered this 1/3